The graph shows the changes in the impact factor of Research in Sports Medicine 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 Research in Sports Medicine?
Research in Sports Medicine is the 21st out of 293 Rehabilitation journals. This means the journal is among the top 8% in the discipline of Rehabilitation. This Journal is the 28th out of 222 Orthopedics journals. This means the journal is among the top 13% in the discipline of Orthopedics. This Journal is the 1547th out of 15,471 Health Sciences journals. This means the journal is among the top 10% 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.
