The graph shows the changes in the impact factor of Humor 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 Humor?
Humor is the 198th out of 560 Sociology journals. This Journal is the 229th out of 1,792 Linguistics journals. This means the journal is among the top 13% in the discipline of Linguistics. This Journal is the 714th out of 4,377 Arts and Humanities journals. This means the journal is among the top 17% in the science branch of Arts and Humanities. This Journal is the 965th out of 2,014 Psychology journals. This Journal is the 4913rd 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.
