The graph shows the changes in the impact factor of World Journal of Gastroenterology 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 World Journal of Gastroenterology?
World Journal of Gastroenterology is the 13th out of 128 Gastroenterology journals. This means the journal is among the top 11% in the discipline of Gastroenterology. This Journal is the 677th out of 15,471 Health Sciences journals. This means the journal is among the top 5% 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.
