The graph shows the changes in the impact factor of American Heart Journal and its the corresponding percentile for the sake of comparison with the entire literature. Impact Factor is the most common scientometric index, which is defined by the number of citations of papers in two preceding years divided by the number of papers published in those years.
How Influential is American Heart Journal?
American Heart Journal is the 12th out of 61 Cardiology journals. This means the journal is among the top 20% in the discipline of Cardiology. This Journal is the 958th out of 15,471 Health Sciences journals. This means the journal is among the top 7% in the science branch of Health Sciences.
How are inpact factors calculated?
The impact factor (IF) is calculated by counting citations from peer-reviewed journals only.
extended IF also counts citations from books and conference papers. However, no patent, abstract, working papers, online documents, etc., are covered.