Journal Impact Factor: A Beginner’s Guide to Calculation and Interpretation

Journal Impact Factor

The Journal Impact Factor (JIF) is the average number of times a journal’s recent articles are cited in a given year. It is simple to calculate and widely used, but it describes journals, not individual papers or researchers. This guide explains how Clarivate calculates it, how to read it and where its limits lie. Key … Read more

10 Largest Publishers in the World (2023)

10 Largest Publishers in the World

Introduction A year on, and it’s about time for us to find out the largest publishers in the world. Which companies come out on top?  The focus in identifying the biggest companies will be on publishers involved in commercial and academic publishing, where they publish and disseminate books, journals, educational publications, information products, and others, … Read more

5 Lessons from John Grisham We Can Learn

Lessons from John Grisham

Introduction There are a few valuable lessons from John Grisham that we can learn. Grisham is an American author best known for his best-selling novels, mainly in the thrillers genre.  I fondly remember watching The Firm movie, a critical and commercial success motion picture adapted from Grisham’s namesake novel starring, among others, Tom Cruise, Gene … Read more

How to Avoid Predatory Journals

How to avoid predatory journals

Predatory journals are a  real menace in academic publishing.  Having first appeared in the early 2000s, the number of predatory journals continues to increase and today becomes a major concern among researchers and genuine academic publishers.  There are tens of thousands of academic journals in the world today, and predatory journals possibly make up as … Read more