JQP: Mechanism for assessing the quality of a journal beyond the impact factor with special reference to Social Sciences published from India
Author(s): Barun Naskar, Pradip Roy & Dr. Bapan Kumar Maity
Abstract - Impact Factor is not the only criteria to evaluate the quality of a journal. It has been found and proved that Impact Factor (IF) of a specific journal varies from one database to another. So, I raised the question about the impact factor when IF is considered a journal quality measuring tool. The present study suggests an alternative mechanism, i.e., Journal Quality Point (JQP), for assessing the quality of a journal, which consists of 15 parameters, where IF is one of them. We have selected seven common 7 Indian journals on Social Sciences that are available in Web of Science as well as in the Scopus database. Although each journal’s IF two databases is different. We have studied physical parameters of an individual journal like age of journal, key word availability with the article, writing style of the published article, lay out of the text, article submission procedure, Credential of authors, Specific guideline for papers to be published with peer-review process and studied 10570 references of 268 articles and also count the receiving citation of individual article.
Keywords - Journal Ranking; Journal evaluation; Indian-Journal evaluation; Impact Factor.
DOI URL: https://doi.org/10.26761/ijrls.11.2.2025.1895
Cite This Article As: Naskar, B., Roy, P. & Maity, B. K. (2025) JQP: Mechanism for assessing the quality of a journal beyond the impact factor with special reference to Social Sciences published from India. International Journal of Research in Library Science (IJRLS), 11(2) 235-245. www.ijrls.in
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Paper ID: IJRLS-1895 Page: 235-245 Publication Date: 10 June 2025