The graph shows the changes in the impact factor of Language in Society 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 Language in Society?
Language in Society is the 5th out of 21 Sociolinguistics journals. This Journal is the 6th out of 24 Linguistic Anthropology journals. This Journal is the 180th out of 854 Anthropology journals. This Journal is the 714th out of 4,377 Arts and Humanities journals. This means the journal is among the top 17% in the science branch of Arts and Humanities. This Journal is the 4913rd out of 18,687 Social 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.
