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Asian Social Science 9, 5 (2013) 176-182

Does Criticisms Overcome the Praises of Journal Impact Factor?

Masood Fooladi (

) ¹, Hadi Salehi ², Melor Md Yunus ³, Maryam Farhadi ⁴, Aghaei Chadegani Arezoo ⁴, Hadi Farhadi ⁵, Nader Ale Ebrahim ⁶

(27/04/2013)

Journal impact factor (IF) as a gauge of influence and impact of a particular journal comparing with other journals in the same area of research, reports the mean number of citations to the published articles in particular journal. Although, IF attracts more attention and being used more frequently than other measures, it has been subjected to criticisms, which overcome the advantages of IF. Critically, extensive use of IF may result in destroying editorial and researchers' behaviour, which could compromise the quality of scientific articles. Therefore, it is the time of the timeliness and importance of a new invention of journal ranking techniques beyond the journal impact factor.

1 :	Islamic Azad University, Mobarakeh (IAU, Mobarakeh)

	Department of Accounting, Mobarakeh Branch

2 :	Islamic Azad University, Najafabad (IAU, Najafabad)

	Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Isfahan, Iran

3 :	Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)

	Faculty Of Education, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (ukm), Malaysia

4 :	Islamic Azad University, Mobarakeh (IAU, Mobarakeh)

	Department of Accounting, Mobarakeh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mobarakeh, Isfahan, Iran

5 :	Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)

	School of Psychology and Human Development, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Malaysia

6 :	University of Malaya (UM)

	Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya