The graph shows the changes in the impact factor of Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness 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 Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness?
Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness is the 1st out of 2 Medical Anthropology journals. This Journal is the 2nd out of 12 Biological Anthropology journals. This means the journal is among the top 17% in the sub-discipline of Biological Anthropology. This Journal is the 19th out of 854 Anthropology journals. This means the journal is among the top 3% in the discipline of Anthropology. This Journal is the 1008th out of 18,687 Social Sciences journals. This means the journal is among the top 6% in the science branch of Social 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.
