The graph shows the changes in the impact factor of Forests 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 Forests?
Forests is the 22nd out of 197 Forestry journals. This means the journal is among the top 12% in the sub-discipline of Forestry. This Journal is the 115th out of 751 Agriculture journals. This means the journal is among the top 16% in the discipline of Agriculture. This Journal is the 2080th 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.
