{"id":91639,"date":"2017-10-02T08:33:21","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T08:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clarivate.com\/?p=19165"},"modified":"2025-07-22T16:01:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T16:01:38","slug":"closer-look-journal-impact-factor-numerator-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clarivate.com\/academia-government\/blog\/closer-look-journal-impact-factor-numerator-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A Closer Look at the Journal Impact Factor Numerator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/clarivate.com\/academia-government\/scientific-and-academic-research\/research-funding-analytics\/journal-citation-reports\/publishers\/first-time-publishers\/\">Journal Impact Factor<\/a> is the brainchild of our late founder, Dr. Eugene Garfield, and has been the mainstay of journal analysis since its inception. In this video, we will look at the calculation of the Journal Impact Factor and take a deeper dive into what makes up the numerator of the calculation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more about Journal Citation Reports, download our <a href=\"http:\/\/info.clarivate.com\/_Verify?cn=JCR Engagement_Rapid Response_SSR_2017&amp;cid=70139000000v7j5&amp;doc=https:\/\/clarivate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/JCR_Primer.pdf&amp;desc=JCR Primer&amp;rt=Website&amp;product=JCT&amp;sbu=Scientific and Scholarly Research\">primer<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Journal Impact Factor is the brainchild of our late founder, Dr. Eugene Garfield, and has been the mainstay of journal analysis since its inception. In this video, we will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":265633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[62],"class_list":["post-91639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academia-government","tag-journal-citation-reports","clarivate-product-journal-citation-reports"],"acf":[],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":91639},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarivate.com\/academia-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarivate.com\/academia-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarivate.com\/academia-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarivate.com\/academia-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarivate.com\/academia-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/clarivate.com\/academia-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286554,"href":"https:\/\/clarivate.com\/academia-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91639\/revisions\/286554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarivate.com\/academia-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarivate.com\/academia-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarivate.com\/academia-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarivate.com\/academia-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}