Comparison

Journal Impact Factor vs ScholarWidget

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Journal Impact Factor

Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Home screen widgets (small, medium, large)
  • Total citations, h-index, i10-index display
  • Citations per year bar chart
  • Automatic background refresh
  • Clean, colorful design
Features
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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/

Screenshots

Journal Impact Factor3 screens
ScholarWidget4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Journal Impact Factor versus ScholarWidget: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterJournal Impact FactorScholarWidget
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.117.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer萌 赵Snizyx Software LLC

In-app purchases

None

Journal Impact Factor

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

ScholarWidget

Subscriptions1
  • Fast Updates$0.991 Month

Questions

Is Journal Impact Factor free?
Journal Impact Factor is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ScholarWidget free?
ScholarWidget is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Journal Impact Factor or ScholarWidget have ads?
Neither Journal Impact Factor nor ScholarWidget shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Journal Impact Factor or ScholarWidget?
Journal Impact Factor ships an update every 3 weeks, and ScholarWidget weekly. Most recently, Journal Impact Factor was updated on October 8, 2026 and ScholarWidget on October 11, 2026.

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