مقایسهٔ روش‌ها

	ضریب تأثیر مجله	رتبه مجله علمی-SCImago
حوزه	کتاب‌سنجی	کتاب‌سنجی
خانواده	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
سال پیدایش	1955	2010
پدیدآور	Eugene Garfield, Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)	SCImago Group (Spanish research consortium)
نوع	Metric	Metric
منبع بنیادین	Garfield, E. (1972). Citation analysis as a tool in journal evaluation. Science, 178(4060), 471-479.	González-Pereira, B., Guerrero-Bote, V. P., & Moya-Anegón, F. (2010). The SJR indicator: A new indicator of journals' scientific prestige. Scientometrics, 82(2), 391-400.
نام‌های دیگر	IF, JIF, Impact Factor, 2-year Impact Factor	SJR, SCImago Journal Rank, Prestige-weighted impact
مرتبط	5	5
خلاصه	Journal Impact Factor (JIF) is a metric developed by Eugene Garfield in 1955 and published annually by Clarivate Analytics through Journal Citation Reports (JCR). It measures the average citation frequency of articles published in a journal over a two-year window, serving as a proxy for journal prestige and influence. A journal's Impact Factor equals the number of citations received in year Y to articles published in Y-1 and Y-2, divided by the number of citable items published in that same window. Despite widespread adoption in research evaluation, Impact Factor has significant limitations and critics argue it conflates journal prestige with article quality.	SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) is a prestige-weighted metric measuring journal citation impact based on Scopus data, developed by SCImago Group (a Spanish research consortium) in 2010. Unlike raw citation counts, SJR values citations from high-prestige journals more heavily than those from lower-prestige journals, similar to Google's PageRank algorithm. This prestige weighting approach accounts for field-specific citation cultures and provides fairer cross-discipline comparisons than raw impact factor. SJR is widely used for journal ranking, quality assessment, and publication targeting, complementing traditional Impact Factor with a prestige dimension.