If I understand, it is an average number of citations to articles published in a journal, but what does "recent" mean? Months, years? How is this average calculated?
Martin,
thank you very much. I'm quite confused about how it works, I find slightly unfair the way in which it is calculated based on citations. If one writes a bad article, maybe is mentioned only to say that what this person writes is completely wrong!
thank you very much and I look forward to the articles that you will send me
cheers
Impact factor of a journal is an index based on the frequency with which a journal's articles are cited in scientific publications. In any given year, the impact factor of a journal is the average number of citations received per paper published in that journal during the two preceding years. It is derived by dividing the number of citations in year 3 to all articles published in the journal during preceding years 1 and 2 by the number of citable articles published in that journal in years 1 and 2.
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