Does criticisms overcome the praises of journal impact factor?

Asian Social Science

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 176-182

  Fooladi, Masood ^a   Salehi, Hadi ^b   Md Yunus, Melor ^c   Farhadi, Maryam ^a   Aghaei Chadegani, Arezoo ^a   Farhadi, Hadi ^c   Ale Ebrahim, Nader ^d  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Criticism; Impact factor (IF); Journal ranking; Praise; Scopus; Self citation; Web of science

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876992050     PISSN: 19112017     EISSN: 19112025     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5539/ass.v9n5p176     Document Type: Article

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