Journal Impact Factor vs ScholarWidget
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Journal Impact Factor
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Make every journal shortlist faster. Journal Impact Factor gives researchers, students, clinicians, librarians, and editors a fast offline way to search and compare journal metrics before submitting a manuscript. Search by title or ISSN across 20,449 journals. Open a journal to see impact factor, 5-year impact factor, JCR quartile, CAS block, publisher, ISSNs, category, region, and rank context. Add favorites for journals you track. Build a comparison list when you need to choose between target journals. Why it is useful - Works offline after install - Fast search with forgiving title and ISSN matching - Side-by-side journal comparison - Top 100 and Explore views for discovery - Favorites and recent history for repeated research work - No account required Use Journal Impact Factor when preparing a manuscript, checking a grant or promotion packet, supporting library questions, or reviewing a journal's fit before submission.
ScholarWidget
Display your Google Scholar citation metrics directly on your iOS home screen. Track total citations, h-index, and i10-index with customizable widgets. The app automatically refreshes your stats periodically.
- Home screen widgets (small, medium, large)
- Total citations, h-index, i10-index display
- Citations per year bar chart
- Automatic background refresh
- Clean, colorful design
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ScholarWidget puts your Google Scholar citation metrics right on your iPhone. Track your total citations, h-index, and i10-index at a glance with beautiful, colorful widgets for your Home Screen, Lock Screen and StandBy. Choose from a compact small widget showing your citation count, a medium widget with all three metrics side-by-side, or a large widget featuring a full citations-per-year bar chart. Simply enter a Google Scholar profile ID in the app and the widget keeps itself up to date — weekly for free, or every 4 hours with Fast Updates. Works with any public Google Scholar profile. Features: - Small, medium, and large home screen widgets, plus Lock Screen and StandBy widgets - Total citations, h-index, and i10-index display - Citations per year bar chart (large widget) - My Publications: your papers with their citation counts, most cited first - Milestone alerts: a notification when your citations cross a milestone (100, 250, 1,000…), your h-index goes up, or your i10-index reaches a new mark - Share a card of your metrics - Automatic background refresh - Citation alerts: a push notification when a new paper cites your work, and who cited each paper (Fast Updates) - Clean, colorful design Available purchases include: - Fast Updates Monthly (1 month duration, price $0.99/month, auto-renews) - Fast Updates Yearly (1 year duration, price $7.99/year, auto-renews) - Lifetime Access (one-time purchase, $24.99) Prices shown in USD and may vary by region. Subscriptions are governed by the standard EULA https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Journal Impact Factor at none against ScholarWidget's 1. ScholarWidget's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. ScholarWidget sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month. Journal Impact Factor asks for nothing beyond the download.
Journal Impact Factor ships an update every 3 weeks, ScholarWidget weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Journal Impact Factor | ScholarWidget |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.1 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 萌 赵 | Snizyx Software LLC |
In-app purchases
Journal Impact Factor
No in-app purchases
ScholarWidget
- Fast Updates$0.991 Month


