ISRA:JIF are designed to assess significance and performance of individual journals, their role and position in the international formal and informal communication network, their quality or prestige as perceived by scholars and researchers . Scientific journals may differ with respect to their importance of their position in the journal communication system, their status or prestige.
ISRA:JIF developed and promulgated by International Society for Research Activity (ISRA) and regularly published in the annual JIF reports of is a fundamental citation-based measure for significance and performance of journals and proceedings. Wherever the JIF report is available, a variety of journal contextual citation measures including and beyond the JIF can readily be built and calculated. If this is done based on a sound methodology and if the process steps are properly documented, bibliometric tools with wide fields of applications in the field of science information, information retrieval and research evaluation can be obtained from Database originally designed for the retrieval of scientific information. Thus, especially the JIF has become perhaps the most popular bibliometric measure used in bibliometrics itself, but also outside the scientific community.
JIF developed and promulgated by International Society for Research Activity (ISRA) is completely unique, systematic and scientific way of computation and analysis based on the following parameters
I. Governance and Commercial Quality/ Scientific Quality
The following parameters are being considered for the evaluation.
II. Editorial quality
III. International presence and Infrastructure
International availability is important for the proper development of a scientific journal. Two factors are taken into consideration:
IV. Contextual citation
International Society for Research Activity (ISRA) provides a base for evaluating the quality of papers by stressing on the Context which depends on two important parameters. Viz., Coherence and Relevance.
International Society for Research Activity (ISRA) takes into consideration the following factors for evaluating the Coherence and Relevance parameters.
• Statement of the problem
• The way by which the purpose is established in the given context
• Methodologies followed for substantiating / justifying the proceedings / results / outcomes
In addition to this, the context is classified into two types:
a. Geographical context
b. Subject matter context
International Society for Research Activity (ISRA) furnishes weightages (Weightages are computed based on the empirical study of millions of research papers) for all the above four factors and the weightages are applied and finally, ISRA:JIF is computed.
I. Scientific Quality (110 points) |
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Categories |
Remarks |
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Excellence |
Very Good |
Good |
Fine |
Poor |
Very Poor |
Marks |
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International Scope |
20 |
18 |
17 |
16 |
4 |
0 |
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Scope of all thrust Area |
30 |
25 |
23 |
20 |
5 |
0 |
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Acceptance Level |
30 |
25 |
23 |
20 |
5 |
0 |
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No. of paper published regularity |
30 |
25 |
23 |
20 |
5 |
0 |
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Total |
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II. Editorial Quality (190) |
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Categories |
Remarks |
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Excellence |
Very Good |
Good |
Fine |
Poor |
Very Poor |
Marks |
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Level of Editorial Board |
60 |
50 |
40 |
45 |
30 |
20 |
|
Level of Reviewer Board |
50 |
40 |
35 |
30 |
20 |
10 |
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Editing Quality |
80 |
70 |
65 |
50 |
40 |
30 |
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Total |
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III. International presence and Infrastructure (180) |
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Categories |
Remarks |
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Excellence |
Very Good |
Good |
Fine |
Poor |
Very Poor |
Marks |
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Scope |
60 |
50 |
40 |
45 |
30 |
20 |
|
Indexing level |
60 |
50 |
40 |
45 |
30 |
20 |
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Industrial Impact |
60 |
50 |
40 |
45 |
30 |
20 |
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Total |
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IV. Contextual Citation (520) |
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Categories |
Remarks |
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Excellence |
Very Good |
Good |
Fine |
Poor |
Very Poor |
Marks |
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Originality |
150 |
140 |
120 |
100 |
60 |
40 |
|
Presentation |
50 |
40 |
30 |
25 |
15 |
10 |
|
Technical Accuracy |
70 |
60 |
55 |
45 |
30 |
25 |
|
Significance & broader Impact |
100 |
90 |
80 |
70 |
40 |
20 |
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Relevancy |
50 |
40 |
30 |
25 |
15 |
10 |
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Implication for Industrial Practices |
100 |
90 |
80 |
70 |
40 |
20 |
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Total |
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Grand Total (Score Out of 1000) |
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Score Percentage |
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Five year ISRA:JIF - One year of citations to five years of articles
Review articles generally are cited more frequently than typical research articles because they often serve as surrogates for earlier literature, especially in journals that discourage extensive bibliographies. In the International Society for Research Activity (ISRA) system any article containing more than 50 references is coded as a review. The Source Data Listing in JIF report not only provides data on the number of reviews in each journal but also provides the average number of references cited in that journal's articles.
Naturally, review journals have some of the highest ISRA:JIF. Often, the first-ranked journal in the subject category listings will be a review journal.
Different specialties exhibit different ranges of ISRA:JIF. That is why the International Society for Research Activity (ISRA) provides subject category listings. In this way, journals may be viewed in the context of their specific field. Still, a five -year impact may be more useful to some users and can be calculated by combining the statistical data available from consecutive years. It is rare to find that the ranking of a journal will change significantly within its designated category unless the journal's influence has indeed changed
Let us see how Five year ISRA:JIF is calculated now:
A= citations in 2012 to articles published in 2006-2011
B= articles published in 2006-2011
C= (A/B) + (Total Score/1000) = Five-year ISRA:JIF