The graph shows the changes in the impact factor of Photonics 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 Photonics?
Photonics is the 131st out of 350 Radiology journals. This Journal is the 2574th out of 11,479 Physical Sciences journals. This Journal is the 3107th out of 14,350 Health 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.
