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A meta-analysis of impact factors of astrophysics journals

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arxiv 2410.03342 v2 pith:J44VOSLB submitted 2024-10-04 astro-ph.IM cs.DLphysics.soc-ph

Rayani Venkat Sai Rithvik , Shantanu Desai This is my paper · ORCID
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We calculate the 2024 impact factors for the 38 most widely used journals in Astrophysics, using the citations collated by NASA/ADS (Astrophysics Data System) and compare them to the official impact factors. This includes journals which publish papers outside of astrophysics such as PRD, EPJC, Nature, etc. We also propose a new metric to gauge the impact factor based on the median number of citations in a journal and calculate the same for all the journals. We find that the ADS-based impact factors are mostly in agreement, albeit higher than the official impact factors for most journals. The journals with the maximum fractional difference in median-based and old impact factors are JHEAP and PTEP. We find the maximum difference between the ADS and official impact factor for Nature.

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