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The journal states that their aim is to assess solely the scientific validity of a submitted paper, rather than its perceived importance, significance, or impact. [ 2 ] In September 2016, the journal became the largest in the world by number of articles, overtaking PLOS ONE .
The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a scientometric index calculated by Clarivate that reflects the yearly mean number of citations of articles published in the last two years in a given journal, as indexed by Clarivate's Web of Science.
The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a scientometric index calculated by Clarivate that reflects the yearly mean number of citations of articles published in the last two years in a given journal, as indexed by Clarivate's Web of Science.
The journal is abstracted and indexed in Scopus, [2] BIOSIS Previews, and the Science Citation Index Expanded. [3] According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2016 impact factor of 1.069. [4]
The Science Citation Index Expanded (previously titled Science Citation Index) is a citation index originally produced by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) and created by Eugene Garfield. The Science Citation Index (SCI) was officially launched in 1964, [1] and later was distributed via CD/DVD. [2]
Science is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science [A 2] [1] (AAAS) and one of the world's top academic journals. [2] It was first published in 1880, is currently circulated weekly and has a subscriber base of around 130,000.
The ISI also published the annual Journal Citation Reports which list an impact factor for each of the journals that it tracked. Within the scientific community, journal impact factors continue to play a large but controversial role in determining the kudos attached to a scientist's published research record.
In any given year, the CiteScore of a journal is the number of citations, received in that year and in previous three years, for documents published in the journal during the total period (four years), divided by the total number of published documents (articles, reviews, conference papers, book chapters, and data papers) in the journal during the same four-year period: [3]