The graph shows the changes in the impact factor of Acta Cirurgica Brasileira 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 Acta Cirurgica Brasileira?
Acta Cirurgica Brasileira is the 230th out of 645 Surgery journals. This Journal is the 4263rd out of 14,350 Health Sciences journals.
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.
