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)
2025 1.6 131/184, Q3 140 88
2024 1.2 138/182, Q4 133 108
2023 1.2 135/183, Q3 156 126
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
2025 1.4
2024 1.4
2023 1.3
2022 1.6
2021 1.606
2020 1.523
2019 1.352
2018 1.074
2017 1.146
2016 0.870
2015 0.685

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
2025 0.318
2024 0.470
2023 0.366
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
  2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
Submissions 526 427 369 327 286 334 290 277
Accepted 51 62 54 70 49 55 40 35
Acceptance rate [%] 10.31 14.52 14.63 21.40 17.13 16.46 13.79 12.64