The graph shows the changes in the impact factor of Taxon 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 Taxon?
Taxon is the 75th out of 252 Botany journals. This Journal is the 556th out of 1,129 Ecology journals. This Journal is the 2671st out of 5,258 Biology journals. This Journal is the 4178th out of 8,993 Life 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.
