The graph shows the changes in the impact factor of Public Health Reports 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 Public Health Reports?
Public Health Reports is the 232nd out of 805 Public Health journals. This Journal is the 2846th out of 14,350 Health Sciences journals. This means the journal is among the top 20% 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.
