The graph shows the changes in the impact factor of BMC Psychiatry 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 BMC Psychiatry?
BMC Psychiatry is the 86th out of 592 Psychiatry journals. This means the journal is among the top 15% in the discipline of Psychiatry. This Journal is the 1272nd out of 15,471 Health Sciences journals. This means the journal is among the top 9% 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.
