The graph shows the changes in the impact factor of Journal of Public Health 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 Journal of Public Health?
Journal of Public Health is the 5th out of 164 Social Work journals. This means the journal is among the top 4% in the discipline of Social Work. This Journal is the 138th out of 805 Public Health journals. This means the journal is among the top 18% in the discipline of Public Health. This Journal is the 703rd out of 18,687 Social Sciences journals. This means the journal is among the top 4% in the science branch of Social Sciences. This Journal is the 1633rd out of 14,350 Health Sciences journals. This means the journal is among the top 12% 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.
