Abstrak
Citation is commonly conducted in the activity of writing. As a form of scientific communication, citation is needed so much, so that the author or researcher’s idea can be developed by other authors and researchers, and so does on the contrary. In the application of statistic to investigate citation, it appears the term to mention the size of influence of an article or a journal that is impact factor. This writing exposures the counting of impact factor and investigates its controversy by using the standard reference of The Criteria of International Journal fixed by Dikti.
Keywords: impact factor, Criteria of International Journal
