Information Research Weblog

Thanks to the vigilence of our Associate Editor (Book Reviews) - Elena Macevičiūtė - I discover that Information Research was given an ISI 'impact factor' for 2004, presumably this only happens when all the publications for 2005 are in, so I assume that a measure for 2005 will not happen until 2007.

I don't give these things much heed for a variety of reasons but for those who need to worry about them for reasons of promotion, etc., the factor is measured as 0.841. which puts the journal in the top 20 out of 54 in the category. I'm told that this is really quite remarkable, since the journal only went into ISI's databases in, if I remember aright, 2003.

Journals in the near vicinity of Information Research are shown in the table below:

Rank	Title	Total cites	Impact factor
15	LIBR QUART	207	0.933
16	J MED LIBR ASSOC	96	0.920
17	J INF SCI	366	0.899
18	J INF TECHNOL	217	0.850
19	LIBR INFORM SCI RES	214	0.842
20	INFORM RES	104	0.841
21	INFORM SYST J	108	0.727
22	SOC SCI COMPUT REV	191	0.687
23	J HEALTH COMMUN	201	0.671
24	INFORM SOC	219	0.667
25	ONLINE INFORM REV	93	0.581

The interesting point is not so much where the journal is in the rankings (allowing for some of the oddities that get into this category) but the well-regarded journals that are lower.

ARIST has the highest impact factor, which I imagine is not surprising, as it is an annual review publication.

I wonder if Information Research is the only e-journal, published by an individual, rather than a corporation or an institution, that has an impact factor? Can't be bothered to check it out myself :-)