The graph shows the changes in the impact factor of American Journal of Sports Medicine 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 Journal of Sports Medicine?
American Journal of Sports Medicine is the 5th out of 222 Orthopedics journals. This means the journal is among the top 3% in the discipline of Orthopedics. This Journal is the 5th out of 293 Rehabilitation journals. This means the journal is among the top 2% in the discipline of Rehabilitation. This Journal is the 447th out of 15,471 Health Sciences journals. This means the journal is among the top 3% 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.
