• Impact Factor: 2.709 ℹ Impact Factor:
  2016: 2.709
  The Impact Factor measures the average number of citations received in a particular year by papers published in the journal during the two preceding years.
  2016 Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2017)
• 5-Year Impact Factor: 2.456 ℹ Five-Year Impact Factor:
  2016: 2.456
  To calculate the five year Impact Factor, citations are counted in 2016 to the previous five years and divided by the source items published in the previous five years.
  2016 Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2017)
• Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 0.858 ℹ Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP):
  2016: 0.858
  SNIP measures contextual citation impact by weighting citations based on the total number of citations in a subject field.
• SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 0.914 ℹ SCImago Journal Rank (SJR):
  2016: 0.914
  SJR is a prestige metric based on the idea that not all citations are the same. SJR uses a similar algorithm as the Google page rank; it provides a quantitative and a qualitative measure of the journal’s impact.

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