The graph shows the changes in the impact factor of BMC Nursing 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 BMC Nursing?
BMC Nursing is the 98th out of 1,172 Nursing journals. This means the journal is among the top 9% in the discipline of Nursing. This Journal is the 2081st out of 14,350 Health Sciences journals. This means the journal is among the top 15% in the science branch of Health 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.
