The graph shows the changes in the impact factor of Psychology and 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 Psychology and Health?
Psychology and Health is the 60th out of 271 Applied Psychology journals. This Journal is the 191st out of 805 Public Health journals. This Journal is the 301st out of 2,175 Psychology journals. This means the journal is among the top 14% in the discipline of Psychology. This Journal is the 1067th out of 20,139 Social Sciences journals. This means the journal is among the top 6% in the science branch of Social Sciences. This Journal is the 2350th out of 15,471 Health Sciences journals. This means the journal is among the top 16% 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.