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Journal metrics

Journal-level metrics

The metrics below are produced by third parties as ways to quantify the impact this journal has on the research community.

Please note that these metrics should always be considered in the context of how they are calculated. As a signatory of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) we also emphasise that none of these journal-level metrics should be used to judge the impact of an individual article or author, or their research outputs.

For full details of how these metrics are calculated, please see our guide to journal-level metrics.

Journal metrics
Impact Factor 2.027
5-year Impact Factor 2.216
Eigenfactor 0.001
Article Influence Score 0.331
CiteScore 2.8
SJR 0.377
SNIP 0.623

Publishing statistics

We will soon be providing annual statistics about this journal's publishing activity. Please check back later.

Publication processes
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Article counts

The table below displays information about the number of articles published in this journal in 2021. For further details of how articles are counted, please see this page.

Published articles
Total number of articles last year 84
Number of OA articles last year 18
Number of articles last year supported by subscription revenue (non-OA articles and OA articles without funding) 68

Data for cOAlition S

This journal is registered with cOAlition S as a Transformative Journal, and provides additional annual statistics to cOAlition S. For more information please refer to this page.