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24 Nov 2015
Quality and Impact Analysis: Frontiers in Microbiology 2
Frontiers in Microbiology has an Impact Factor of 4.165 and is the 2nd most-cited open-access journal in Microbiology.
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Impact analysis
01 Nov 2015
Quality and Impact Analysis: Frontiers in Microbiology
By Pascal Rocha da Silva, Frontiers analyst Frontiers in Microbiology was launched in 2010. In just 4 years, it has become the 5th largest and the 12th most-cited Microbiology journal in the world. The Impact Factor (IF), defined as the total number of citations in a given year divided by the number of citable articles over the previous two-year period, is the most commonly accepted metric of journal quality (but not of an individual paper or researcher). It was formally established by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) in 1975. As the IF can be heavily skewed by a few highly-cited papers, total citations generated over the same two-year period provide a more accurate indication of the overall influence or impact of the articles published by a journal in a field. Frontiers is a pioneer in the use of article-level and author-level metrics and encourages every author to use these to track the development of his or her readership on a more granular level. d. Analysis within the category of Microbiology There are 119 journals listed in the category of Microbiology in the 2014 Journal Citations Reports (JCR) provided by Thomson Reuters in 2015. Frontiers in Microbiology is one of the 15 Gold open-access journals. Below, the results of our comparative analysis on the […]