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Are you writing to have an impact factor or to have an impact?
Their impact factor could have been anywhere from 4 to 11; an impact factor in the 30s is extremely high, while most journals are under 1.
What exactly is an Impact Factor?
Establishing an impact factor can take 2 to 3 years.
For the moment, the journal doesn't have an impact factor either.
More importantly, we also consider the connection time as an impact factor.
The next challenge will be inclusion in Thomson Reuters and the assignment of an impact factor.
Notice in this example that the society-level Journal of Immunology has an impact factor of 7, whereas the near-the-top immunology journal Immunity has an impact factor of 17.5.
And in some nations, publication in a journal with an impact factor below 5.0 is officially of zero value.
Conservation Biology is the most highly cited publication in conservation biology with an impact factor of 4.9.
So a mention in a journal with an impact factor of 30 would be worth $3,000.
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