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Etymology Impact Factor

Etymology is that the study of historical linguistic change, which occurs thanks to the event of a specific word or element of a word, often delineating its spread from one language to a different and its evolving changes in form and meaning. They're explanations of what our words meant and the way they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago. The impact factor of journal provides quantitative assessment tool for grading, evaluating, sorting and comparing journals of comparable kind. It reflects the typical number of citations to recent articles published in science and science journals during a particular year or period, and is usually used as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal within its field. it's first devised by Eugene Garfield, the founding father of the Institute for Scientific Information. The impact factor of a journal is evaluated by dividing the amount of current year citations to the source items published therein journal during the previous two years. For languages with an extended written history, etymologists make use of texts, and texts about the language, to collect knowledge about how words were used during earlier periods, how they developed in meaning and form, or when and the way they entered the language. Etymologists also apply the methods of comparative linguistics to reconstruct information about forms that are too old for any direct information to be available.      

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