6.6(top 5%)
impact factor
11.4K(top 2%)
papers
548.7K(top 1%)
citations
217(top 1%)
h-index
6.9(top 5%)
extended IF
18.0K
all documents
735.1K
doc citations
343(top 1%)
g-index
impact-factor
The graph shows the changes in the impact factor of ELife and its 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 ELife in terms of citations?

Based on the citation analysis of 16,517 articles ELife has published so far, 13% of its articles have received no citation at all. 799 articles (about 4% of the total articles) have received only one citation. 9.95% of the articles (1340) have received over 100 citations.