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
| 2-year Impact Factor | 3.6 |
| 5-year Impact Factor | 3.9 |
| Eigenfactor | 0.04226 |
| Article Influence Score | 0.971 |
| CiteScore | 6.5 |
| Scimago Journal Rank (SJR) | 1.565 |
| Source Normalised Impact per Paper (SNIP) | 1.516 |
Publishing statistics
We will soon be providing annual statistics about this journal's publishing activity. Please check back later.
Article counts
The table below displays information about the number of articles published in this journal in 2022. For further details of how articles are counted, please see this page.
Published articles
| Total number of articles last year | 1222 (as of July 2023) |
| Number of OA articles last year | 645 (as of July 2023) |
| Number of articles last year supported by subscription revenue | 580 (as of July 2023) |
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.