The graph shows the changes in the impact factor of Consumer Reports 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 Consumer Reports?
Consumer Reports is the 1318th out of 1,786 Business journals. This Journal is the 1693rd out of 2,293 Economics journals. This Journal is the 8387th out of 14,350 Health Sciences journals. This Journal is the 14293rd out of 18,687 Social Sciences journals.
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.
