The graph shows the changes in the impact factor of Personnel Psychology 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 Personnel Psychology?
Personnel Psychology is the 13th out of 243 Industrial Relations journals. This means the journal is among the top 6% in the discipline of Industrial Relations. This Journal is the 29th out of 271 Applied Psychology journals. This means the journal is among the top 11% in the sub-discipline of Applied Psychology. This Journal is the 129th out of 2,014 Psychology journals. This means the journal is among the top 7% in the discipline of Psychology. This Journal is the 488th out of 18,687 Social Sciences journals. This means the journal is among the top 3% in the science branch of Social 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.
