The graph shows the changes in the impact factor of Western Journal of Communication 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 Western Journal of Communication?
Western Journal of Communication is the 203rd out of 1,792 Linguistics journals. This means the journal is among the top 12% in the discipline of Linguistics. This Journal is the 624th out of 4,377 Arts and Humanities journals. This means the journal is among the top 15% in the science branch of Arts and Humanities. This Journal is the 4495th out of 18,687 Social 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.
