Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Journal ranking
1. Impact factor
Impact Factor: average number of cites per year:
cites in year x to recent papers in the journal
recent papers in the journal
recent = published from year x-2 to x-1 (impact factor)
or
published from year x-5 to x-1 (5-year impact factor)
2. (Q=quartile)
-Position of journal within the subject category
-Q1 until Q4 in category