Impact

Impact Factor & Ranking

The Journal Impact Factor is defined as all citations to the journal in the current JCR year to items published in the previous two years, divided by the total number of scholarly items (these comprise articles, reviews, and proceedings papers) published in the journal in the previous two years.
Though not a strict mathematical average, the Journal Impact Factor provides a functional approximation of the mean citation rate per citable item. The citing works may be articles published in the same journal.  However, most citing works are from different journals, proceedings, or books indexed in Web of Science Core Collection.
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Year Impact Factor Rank Citations
(No. of citations
by papers of past 2 years)
Papers
(No. of papers
in the past 2 years)
2022 1.7 97/135, Q3 211 124
2021 1.600 108/137, Q4 208 130
2020 1.554 98/135, Q3 216 139
2019 1.377 95/130, Q3 201 146
2018 1.139 94/129, Q3 172 151
2017 1.182 88/128, Q3 188 159
2016 0.914 98/130, Q4 148 162
2015 0.677 101/132, Q4 111 164

5-Year Impact Factor

The 5-year journal Impact Factor, available from 2007 onward, is the average number of times articles from the journal published in the past five years have been cited in the JCR year. It is calculated by dividing the number of citations in the JCR year by the total number of articles published in the five previous years.
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Year 5 Year Impact Factor
2022 1.6
2021 1.606
2020 1.523
2019 1.352
2018 1.074
2017 1.146
2016 0.870
2015 0.685

CiteScore

CiteScore measures average citations received per document published in the serial. CiteScore calculates the average number of citations received in a calendar year by all items published in that journal in the preceding three years.
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Year CiteScore Rank Citations
(No. of citations
by papers of past 3 years)
Papers
(No. of papers
in the past 3 years)
2022 2.8 #317/631, Q3 644 233
2021 2.0 #346/601, Q3 335 168
2020 2.1 #313/596, Q3 349 166
2019 3.1 #190/585, Q2 562 182
2018 1.52 #236/579, Q2 320 210
2017 1.42 #198/554, Q2 334 236
2016 1.13 #214/526, Q2 266 235
2015 0.99 #204/520,Q2 236 239

SNIP

Source Normalized Impact per Paper measures actual citations received relative to citations expected for the serial’s subject field.
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Year SNIP
2022 0.686
2021 0.600
2020 0.993
2019 0.933
2018 1.157
2017 1.196
2016 1.103
2015 0.958

SJR

SCImago Journal Rank measures weighted citations received by the serial. Citation weighting depends on subject field and prestige (SJR) of the citing serial.
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Year SJR
2022 0.336
2021 0.285
2020 0.271
2019 0.421
2018 0.401
2017 0.470
2016 0.429
2015 0.383

Received & Accepted Articles

Acceptance Rate

  Year of submitted paper
  2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Submissions 639 590 610 526 427 369 327
Accepted 87 70 85 51 62 54 70
Acceptance rate [%] 13.62 11.86 13.93 10.31 14.52 14.63 21.40