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Fundamentals of Journal Impact Factor and Indexing Database Metrics


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1 Deptt. of Pediatrics, S.S. Medical College Rewa (M.P.), India
2 Deptt. of Zoology, Girls P.G. Degree College Rewa (M.P.), India
3 Deptt. of Anaesthesiology, S.S. Medical College Rewa (M.P.), India
4 Deptt. of Pharmacology, S.S. Medical College Rewa (M.P.), India
5 S.S. Medical College Rewa (M.P.), India
6 Scientist-II, Multi-disciplinary Research Unit, S.S. Medical College Rewa (M.P.), India
     

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An impact factor is a measure of citations to articles published in a journal. A citation is a reference to a specific work cited in another work. The work is a scholarly work such as one in a peer reviewed journal. To find out how much impact of a particular article or author has had by showing that other authors cited work within their own papers. An abstracting and indexing service is an important part of the publishing process. It indexes content at the article level by specifying subject headings at each level and then making them searchable in the product’s database. These services also list other bibliographic elements of journal articles, including author, title and date of publication etc.

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Impact Factor, Indexing, Abstracting, Citation Metrics, Pubmed.
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Authors

S. Pandey
Deptt. of Pediatrics, S.S. Medical College Rewa (M.P.), India
S. Kunder
Deptt. of Zoology, Girls P.G. Degree College Rewa (M.P.), India
N. Bajaj
Deptt. of Pediatrics, S.S. Medical College Rewa (M.P.), India
S. Dwivedi
Deptt. of Anaesthesiology, S.S. Medical College Rewa (M.P.), India
SP. Mahapatra
Deptt. of Pharmacology, S.S. Medical College Rewa (M.P.), India
D. Pandey
S.S. Medical College Rewa (M.P.), India
SK. Pandey
Scientist-II, Multi-disciplinary Research Unit, S.S. Medical College Rewa (M.P.), India

Abstract


An impact factor is a measure of citations to articles published in a journal. A citation is a reference to a specific work cited in another work. The work is a scholarly work such as one in a peer reviewed journal. To find out how much impact of a particular article or author has had by showing that other authors cited work within their own papers. An abstracting and indexing service is an important part of the publishing process. It indexes content at the article level by specifying subject headings at each level and then making them searchable in the product’s database. These services also list other bibliographic elements of journal articles, including author, title and date of publication etc.

Keywords


Impact Factor, Indexing, Abstracting, Citation Metrics, Pubmed.

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