Report on the 2009 & 2010 Impact Factor of IJP&PT

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Volume 11 Num. 3 - October 2011

Report on the 2009 & 2010 Impact Factor of IJP&PT

Volume 11 Num. 3 - October 2011 - Pages 455-464

Authors:

IJP&PT Editorial Committee

riptp@ual.es

Abstract:

In October 2009 IJP&PT applied for its inclusion as an indexed journal in Thomson-Reuters (ISI) Journal Citation Reports-Social Sciences Citation Index (JCR-SSCI) in order to have its impact factor and all other relevant information listed and available for public knowledge. Since 2005 IJP&PT has been under assessment by the Department of Editorial Development & Publisher Relations. The Impact factor (IF) data for 2010 have been recently published and IJP&PT has not been included yet among the Spain-based psychology journals indexed in the SSCI. As of September 2011 the editorial board of IJP&PT will apply again for its inclusion in JCR-SSCI. In order to let authors and our readership have a basis for evaluating the reasons that support our application, we have decided to publish the 2009 and 2010 IF data that IJP&PT would have obtained had Thomson-Reuters decided to include it in their database. For the calculation of the 2009 & 2010 IF we have used the available citation data for IJP&PT in the Web of Science®. Please note that for non-indexed journals like IJP&PT the Web of Science® only includes cites from JCR journals, and thus no self-cites nor any cites from other non-indexed journals. Given that for JCR-SSCI indexed journals the calculation of IF does consider both self-cites and cites from non-indexed journals, and in order to compensate for this and provide a fair and realistic calculation of IJP&PT’s impact factor, we have completed the Web of Science® citation data with the cites appearing in the Scopus database because include self-cites and cites from some journals not considered by the Thomson-Reuters database, and others cites appearing in Google Scholard. Accordingly, the calculation presented in this Report offers an IF which should be close to the one that would have appeared in the JCR-SSCI had IJP&PT been indexed, and in any case slightly lower due to the loss of some cites collected by neither database. Tables 1 & 2 show the IF for 2009 and 2010, the total of cites in 2009 (for articles published in 2007 and 2008) and in 2010 (articles published in 2008 and 2009), the total of citable articles published, self-cites in 2009 and 2010, and the IF without self-cites. In order to facilitate the verification of each single cite used for the calculations of IF, a complete list of all 2009 and 2010 cites to IJP&PT is presented in Tables 3 & 4, with all relevant details that will allow for their localization (cited article, citing article, number of cites per article, cumulative cites for IJP&PT, and the database the cite was collected from).
Authors who may need this report for assessment, accreditation, or certification purposes (submission to faculty evaluation agencies and related administrations) please feel free to request a copy to IJP&PT.

Key words:

Impact Factor

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Volume 11 Num. 3 - October 2011