Abstract
In this short paper we recall the (Garfield) Impact Factor of a Journal, we improve and extend it, and eventually we present the Total Impact Factor that reflects the most accurate impact factor.
Highlights
The Impact Factor (IF) or Journal Impact Factor (JIF), that is used today, was proposed by Eugene Eli Garfield (1925 –2017), an American linguist and businessman, founder of the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI), Science Citation Index (SCI), and especially Journal Citation Reports (JCR) among others The Impact Factor is computed since 1975 only for the journals registered in the database of the Journal Citation Reports
We call it Garfield Impact Factor (GIF) in order to distinguish it from three new types of impact factors that we propose in order to improve, extend, and totalize the impact factors’ formulas for a better accuracy of the citations of a journal published papers
We have defined for the first time three new types of impact factors of a journal and we designed an accuracy relationship of order
Summary
We call it Garfield Impact Factor (GIF) in order to distinguish it from three new types of impact factors that we propose in order to improve, extend, and totalize the impact factors’ formulas for a better accuracy of the citations of a journal published papers
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