The graph shows the changes in the impact factor of American Psychologist 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.This graph shows how the impact factor of American Psychologist is computed. The left axis depicts the number of papers published in years X-1 and X2, and the right axis displays their citations in year X.
How Influential is American Psychologist?
American Psychologist is the 20th out of 2,175 Psychology journals. This means the journal is among the top 1% in the discipline of Psychology. This Journal is the 71st out of 20,139 Social Sciences journals. This means the journal is among the top 1% in the science branch of Social Sciences. This Journal is the 240th out of 15,471 Health Sciences journals. This means the journal is among the top 2% in the science branch of Health 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.
