The graph shows the changes in the impact factor of Canadian Journal of Political Science 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 Canadian Journal of Political Science?
Canadian Journal of Political Science is the 53rd out of 261 Political Science journals. This Journal is the 2355th out of 20,139 Social Sciences journals. This means the journal is among the top 12% in the science branch of Social 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.