Abstract: This online workshop will explore the most important academic journal indexing systems and their impact factors. Impact factors are a tool for comparing and evaluating the relative importance of a specific journal within a scientific field, based on the average number of citations received by the articles published in it during a specific period. They are published annually, using the publication year of the article as a reference for evaluation. In this seminar, we will discover the most well-known of these indices is the Impact Factor (IF) published in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR), which calculates the citations received by journals indexed in the Science Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index, included in the main collection of the Web of Science (WoS) database. Also, in the seminar, we will talk about the journals indexed in Scopus and its several impact indices (SJR, CiteScore, and SNIP).
Lecturer: María José Establés Heras
María‐José Establés holds a PhD in Communication (Pompeu Fabra University). She is a Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral fellow funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation at the Complutense University of Madrid. Her main areas of research are qualitative methods in communication sciences, media literacy and fan studies with a special interest in sociopolitical issues. Her work has been published in journals such as Learning, Media & Technology, Media & Communication, Politics and Governance, El Profesional de la Información, Estudios Sobre el Mensaje Periodístico, and Historia y Comunicación Social, as well as in the publishing houses Routledge,Thomson Reuters Aranzadi, and McGraw Hill. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000‐0001‐9674‐3981
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Date: 27th October 2023 (Friday)
Start: 11:00 (Eastern European Time)/10:00 (Central European Time)
End: 12:30 (Eastern European Time)/11:30 (Central European Time)
Format: Online session via Zoom
Registration: You may register by clicking the button on the right
Language: English
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