Field Methods

*Field Methods*
Discipline	Research Methods
Language	English
Edited by	H. Russell Bernard
Publication details
Publication history	1989–present
Publisher	SAGE Publications (United Kingdom)
Frequency	Quarterly
Impact factor ; (2017)	1.471
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	Field Methods
Indexing
ISSN	1525-822X (print); 1552-3969 (web);
LCCN	sn99008858
OCLC no.	41850329
Links
	Journal homepage ; Online access ; Online archive ;

Last updated August 14, 2019

Field Methods is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of Social Sciences. The journal's editor is H. Russell Bernard (University of Florida). It has been in publication since 1989 and is currently published by SAGE Publications.

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Scope

Field Methods is a source of information for scholars, students and professionals alike. The journal publishes articles including descriptions of methodological advances, advice on the use of specific field techniques and help with both qualitative and quantitative methods. The journal also contains essays and book and software reviews.

Abstracting and indexing

Field Methods is abstracted and indexed in, among other databases: SCOPUS, and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports , its 2017 impact factor is 1.471, ranking it 33 out of 98 journals in the category ‘Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary’.^[1] and 32 out of 85 journals in the category ‘Anthropology’.^[2]

The Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) is a commercial citation index product of Clarivate Analytics. It was originally developed by the Institute for Scientific Information from the Science Citation Index.

Journal Citation Reports (JCR) is an annual publication by Clarivate Analytics. It has been integrated with the Web of Science and is accessed from the Web of Science-Core Collections. It provides information about academic journals in the natural sciences and social sciences, including impact factors. The JCR was originally published as a part of Science Citation Index. Currently, the JCR, as a distinct service, is based on citations compiled from the Science Citation Index Expanded and the Social Sciences Citation Index.

The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a scientometric index which reflects the yearly average number of citations to recent articles published in that journal. It is frequently used as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal within its field; journals with higher impact factors are often deemed to be more important than those with lower ones. The impact factor was devised by Eugene Garfield, the founder of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI). Impact factors are calculated yearly starting from 1975 for journals listed in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR).

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References

↑ "Journals Ranked by Impact: Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary". 2017 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2014.
↑ "Journals Ranked by Impact: Anthropology". 2017 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2017.

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[WoS-1] "Journals Ranked by Impact: Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary". 2017 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2014.

[WoS1-2] "Journals Ranked by Impact: Anthropology". 2017 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2017.