Citation metrics
1. CLARIVATE ANALYTICS-JOURNAL CITATION REPORTS
- Journal Impact Factor (JIF): 1.2 (2024)
- Five-year Impact Factor: 1.6
The Journal Impact Factor is a measure of the average number of citations received per paper published in a journal during the two preceding years. It is calculated by dividing the number of citations a journal received in a given year by the number of citable articles published in that journal over the previous two years.
The five-year journal impact factor is the average number of times articles from the journal, published in the past five years, have been cited in the JCR year. It is calculated by dividing the number of citations in the JCR year by the total number of articles published in the previous five years.
Next update: June 2026
2. ELSEVIER-SCOPUS®
- CiteScore: 1.4 (2024)
A journal's CiteScore is calculated by dividing the number of citations its articles received over a four-year period by the total number of documents published in the same journal during those same four years.
Next update: June 2026
3. SCIMAGO
- SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 0.265 (2024)
The SCImago Journal Rank measures the weighted citations received by a journal. Citation weighting depends on the prestige and subject field of the citing serial.
Next update: Spring 2026
4. CWTS Journal Indicators
- Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 0.695 (2024)
- Impact per Publication (IPP): 0.96 (2024)
The Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) indicator measures the actual number of citations received relative to the expected number of citations for a journal's subject field.
Impact per Publication (IPP) measures the ratio of citations in a given year to scholarly papers published in the previous three years, divided by the number of scholarly papers published during those same years. This metric uses a three-year citation window, which is considered the optimal time period to accurately measure citations in most subject fields.
Next update: June 2026