The graph shows the changes in the impact factor of Chinese Geographical Science 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 Chinese Geographical Science?
Chinese Geographical Science is the 51st out of 532 Human Geography journals. This means the journal is among the top 10% in the discipline of Human Geography. This Journal is the 1067th out of 18,687 Social Sciences journals. This means the journal is among the top 6% in the science branch of Social Sciences. This Journal is the 1939th out of 11,479 Physical Sciences journals. This means the journal is among the top 17% in the science branch of Physical 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.
