Impact analysis
01 Dec 2015
Quality and Impact Analysis: Frontiers in Pharmacology 2
Frontiers in Pharmacology has an Impact Factor of 4.418 and is the #2 most cited open-access journal in Pharmacology.
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Impact analysis
04 Nov 2015
Quality and Impact Analysis: Frontiers in Pharmacology
Frontiers in Pharmacology was launched in 2010. In just 4 years, it has become the 3rd largest and the 2nd most cited open access journal in Pharmacology & Pharmacy. 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. Analysis within the category of Pharmacology There are 255 journals listed in the category of Pharmacology in the 2014 Journal Citation Reports (JCR) provided by Thomson Reuters in 2015. Frontiers in Pharmacology is one of the 23 Gold open-access journals. Below are the results of our comparative analysis of these journals on the article […]