Why Impact Factor of Journals in the field of mechanics is Too Low in comparison with Chemistry?

Roozbeh Sanaei's picture

Why The Impact Factors of Journals in the field of mechanics is Too Low in comparison with Chemistry?

 


xzhang's picture

Sometimes we cite Chemistry

Sometimes we cite Chemistry guys' papers, but they never cite our papers! :)


Henry Tan's picture

Low impact papers

Low impact papers may be:
1) bad quality papers; but most of the time they are NOT, but
2) more product (or application) oriented papers.

It is really unfair, and sometimes naïve, to judge a paper solely by its impact factor.

 


Kewei Li's picture

Yeah, that's right, I agree

Yeah, that's right, I agree with Tan. We cannot judge a paper by its impact factor, also , we cannot abuse the impact factor of Journals.