The graph shows the changes in the impact factor of Environmental Science and Policy 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 Environmental Science and Policy?
Environmental Science and Policy is the 12th out of 532 Human Geography journals. This means the journal is among the top 3% in the discipline of Human Geography. This Journal is the 217th out of 20,139 Social Sciences journals. This means the journal is among the top 2% in the science branch of Social Sciences. This Journal is the 507th out of 12,155 Physical Sciences journals. This means the journal is among the top 5% in the science branch of Physical 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.
