Bangladeshi researchers have published more than 8,000 scholarly articles in international journals with impact factor in 2020 – which is third in terms of the number among South Asian countries.
 
An online magazine, Scientific Bangladesh, published the annual report on scientific documents of the country on January 2, analyzing the data of Scopus, a citation database of peer-reviewed literature including scientific journals, books and conference proceedings.

The impact factor, also known as Journal Impact Factor (JIF), is a metric used to evaluate the relative importance of a journal.

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