The journal impact factor (JIF) has been questioned considerably during its development in the past half-century because of its inconsistency with scholarly reputation evaluations of scientific journals. This paper proposes a publication delay adjusted impact factor (PDAIF) which takes publication delay into consideration to reduce the negative effect on the quality of the impact factor determination. Based on citation data collected from Journal Citation Reports and publication delay data extracted from the journals’ official websites, the PDAIFs for journals from business-related disciplines are calculated. The results show that PDAIF values are, on average, more than 50% higher than JIF results. Furthermore, journal ranking based on PDAIF shows very high consistency with reputation-based journal rankings. Moreover, based on a case study of journals published by ELSEVIER and INFORMS, we find that PDAIF will bring a greater impact factor increase for journals with longer publication delay because of reducing that negative influence. Finally, insightful and practical suggestions to shorten the publication delay are provided.

在过去的半个世纪中，由于期刊影响因子（JIF）与科学期刊的学术声誉评估不一致，因此一直受到质疑。本文提出了一种发布延迟调整影响因子（PDAIF），该因子考虑了发布延迟，以减少对影响因子确定质量的负面影响。基于从期刊引文报告中收集的引文数据以及从期刊官方网站提取的出版延迟数据，计算与业务相关学科的期刊的PDAIF。结果表明，PDAIF值平均比JIF结果高50％以上。此外，基于PDAIF的期刊排名与基于声誉的期刊排名具有很高的一致性。此外，根据发表的期刊为例ELSEVIER和运筹学，我们发现PDAIF将给与因为减少负面影响的不再迟迟不公布的期刊有较大影响的因素增加。最后，提供了有见地和实用的建议，以缩短发布时间。