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Summary

impact factor is a magnitude[1]. It draws 334 Wikipedia views per month (magnitude category, ranking #2 of 6).[2]

Key Facts

  • impact factor's field of work was bibliometrics[3].
  • impact factor is the creator of Eugene Garfield[4].
  • impact factor's instance of is recorded as magnitude[5].
  • impact factor's instance of is recorded as coefficient[6].
  • impact factor's instance of is recorded as manipulated metric[7].
  • impact factor's instance of is recorded as citation impact metric[8].
  • impact factor's instance of is recorded as project[9].
  • impact factor's Commons category is recorded as Impact factor[10].
  • impact factor's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D055811[11].
  • impact factor's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/040dhg[12].
  • impact factor's MeSH tree code is recorded as L01.462.500.682.099.325.500[13].
  • impact factor's MeSH tree code is recorded as L01.462.750.183.291.500[14].
  • impact factor's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph262218[15].
  • impact factor's official website is recorded as https://clarivate.com/products/scientific-and-academic-research/research-discovery-and-workflow-solutions/webofscience-platform/[16].
  • impact factor's described by source is recorded as Open Science Thesaurus[17].
  • impact factor's used by is recorded as citation analysis[18].
  • impact factor's used by is recorded as research assessment[19].
  • impact factor's UMLS CUI is recorded as C2350574[20].
  • impact factor's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as impact-factor[21].
  • impact factor's TDKIV term ID is recorded as 000000377[22].
  • impact factor's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2779455604[23].
  • impact factor's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2780422292[24].
  • impact factor's Namuwiki ID is recorded as 임팩트 팩터[25].
  • impact factor's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C2779455604[26].
  • impact factor's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/journal-impact-factor[27].

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Career and Affiliations

impact factor's field of work was bibliometrics[3].

Works and Contributions

impact factor is the creator of Eugene Garfield[4].

Why It Matters

impact factor draws 334 Wikipedia views per month (magnitude category, ranking #2 of 6).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 23 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

Related Entities

bibliometrics Eugene Garfield Open Science Thesaurus

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] ↑ . The top-ten in journal impact factor manipulation.. wikidata.org.
  4. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . data.loterre.fr. Retrieved . data.loterre.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . UMLS 2023. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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