We calculate the 2024 impact factors of 36 most widely used journals in Astrophysics, using the citations collated by NASA/ADS (Astrophysics Data System) and compare them to the official impact factors. This includes journals which publish papers outside of astrophysics such as PRD, EPJC, Nature etc. We also propose a new metric to gauge the impact factor based on the median number of citations in a journal and calculate the same for all the journals. We find that the ADS-based impact factors are mostly in agreement, albeit higher than the official impact factors for most journals. The journals with the maximum fractional difference in median-based and old impact factors are JHEAP and PTEP. We find the maximum difference between the ADS and official impact factor for Nature.
翻译:我们利用NASA/ADS(天体物理学数据系统)收集的引文数据,计算了36种最常用天体物理学期刊的2024年影响因子,并将其与官方影响因子进行对比。这包括发表非天体物理学领域论文的期刊,如PRD、EPJC、Nature等。我们还提出了一种基于期刊中位数引用次数的新度量标准来衡量影响因子,并对所有期刊进行了相应计算。我们发现基于ADS的影响因子与官方影响因子基本一致,尽管大多数期刊的ADS影响因子高于官方值。基于中位数的影响因子与传统影响因子差异最大的期刊是JHEAP和PTEP。我们发现ADS影响因子与官方影响因子差异最大的是Nature期刊。