The graph shows the changes in the impact factor of Methods 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 Methods?
Methods is the 140th out of 439 Molecular Biology journals. This Journal is the 722nd out of 5,258 Biology journals. This means the journal is among the top 14% in the discipline of Biology. This Journal is the 1055th out of 8,993 Life Sciences journals. This means the journal is among the top 12% in the science branch of Life 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.
