The graph shows the changes in the impact factor of Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and its the corresponding percentile for the sake of comparison with the entire literature. Impact Factor is the most common scientometric index, which is defined by the number of citations of papers in two preceding years divided by the number of papers published in those years.
How Influential is Journal of Personality and Social Psychology?
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology is the 12th out of 340 Social Psychology journals. This means the journal is among the top 4% in the sub-discipline of Social Psychology. This Journal is the 57th out of 2,014 Psychology journals. This means the journal is among the top 3% in the discipline of Psychology. This Journal is the 208th out of 18,687 Social Sciences journals. This means the journal is among the top 2% in the science branch of Social Sciences.
How are inpact factors calculated?
The impact factor (IF) is calculated by counting citations from peer-reviewed journals only.
extended IF also counts citations from books and conference papers. However, no patent, abstract, working papers, online documents, etc., are covered.
