IMPACT FACTOR

The impact factor is a method used to qualify scientific journals based on the citations they receive, for example, if 1000 articles were published in the last two years and the journal received 100 citations in the last year, the impact factor for this journal is 0.1. This bibliometric method evaluates the importance of scientific journals in their respective areas, and is a measure that reflects the average number of citations of articles published in a given journal.