Metrics
Impact factor certificates
Every value below is taken from the certificate linked beside it, and every certificate is the one the awarding body issued. Read the year alongside the number.
| Awarding body | Year | Value | Certificate |
|---|---|---|---|
| SJIF, Scientific Journal Impact Factor | 2021 | 3.66 | View certificate for SJIF, Scientific Journal Impact Factor, 2021 |
| IP Indexing | 2021 | 2.78 | View certificate for IP Indexing, 2021 |
| SJIF, Scientific Journal Impact Factor | 2020 | 3.526 | View certificate for SJIF, Scientific Journal Impact Factor, 2020 |
| IP Indexing | 2020 | 1.72 | View certificate for IP Indexing, 2020 |
| Cosmos Impact Factor | 2019 | 4.987 | View certificate for Cosmos Impact Factor, 2019 |
| IP Indexing | 2019 | 1.72 | View certificate for IP Indexing, 2019 |
| ICI, International Citation Index | Valid to January 2020 | 6.2311 | View certificate for ICI, International Citation Index, Valid to January 2020 |
What these numbers are, and are not
The values above are issued by independent evaluation services. They are not the Clarivate Journal Impact Factor, which is calculated only for titles in the Web of Science Core Collection, and IJCRM does not claim one. Each body uses its own method and its own citation window, so the numbers are not comparable with one another.
Where a certificate states an expiry or a validity period, that is noted in the year column above rather than left on the certificate where a reader would have to open the image to find it.
Why the journal publishes them at all
Because authors ask. The more durable measure of whether work published here is read is that every article since 2016 is free to download and still sits at its original address, so a citation written nine years ago still resolves. The archive is the whole record.
ISSN
IJCRM's ISSN is 2456-0979. It is printed on four of the certificates above and it is the number to quote when citing the journal or looking it up in an index.