1. Impact factor is an internationally accepted evaluation index of journals, which reflects the academic influence of journals.

2. First of all, it should be noted that there are no influencing factors in a single article, but only in journals. There are many ways to query journal impact factors. We need to find a website that can be queried. First, you can find many options by searching sci impact factors with a browser, so choose one. ?

3. After entering the homepage of the website, you can query the impact factors of the journal. As shown in the figure, if you know the name of the journal, you can enter the query directly. If you don't know, you can also support fuzzy query or view according to the research direction.

For example, I don't know the name of the periodical, but the research field of my thesis is water conservancy. I directly enter water conservancy in the research direction marked in the second step, and click Query Water Conservancy Science and Ocean Engineering to enter the query. The list of disciplines in the webpage has been completed. If you are looking for a particularly unpopular subject, click to view all fields.

5. After the query, the results will be returned. In the generated journal list, you can see the impact factors of journals. You can also see the employment ratio of journals and papers, the review cycle and so on.

6, check the influencing factors:

First, use 360 browser to search China HowNet and enter official website.

Enter the articles or keywords to be queried in the input box, and click Search.

Find the corresponding journal and click the source.

In the evaluation information in the upper right corner, you can see the impact factor information of the journal in the last year.

Many famous academic journals will indicate their influence factors on their websites to show their influence in the corresponding disciplines.

7. Whether another journal is better or not cannot be judged by its influencing factors. This must be combined with its specialty and direction. There are many journals in the first area of some majors, and there are also many polymer journals, so it is relatively easy for authors of this major and direction to publish papers.

The meaning of impact factors

Impact factor is an internationally accepted periodical evaluation index, which is used to measure the cited frequency of articles of a periodical in a specific year or period.