The graph shows the changes in the impact factor of Materials & Design 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 Materials & Design?
Materials & Design is the 1202nd out of 1,481 Materials Science journals. This Journal is the 2009th out of 2,661 Chemistry 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.
