The graph shows the changes in the impact factor of Global Spine Journal 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 Global Spine Journal?
Global Spine Journal is the 90th out of 645 Surgery journals. This means the journal is among the top 14% in the discipline of Surgery. This Journal is the 126th out of 359 Clinical Neurology journals. This Journal is the 155th out of 460 Neurology journals. This Journal is the 2463rd out of 14,350 Health Sciences journals. This means the journal is among the top 18% 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.
