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Impact factor
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.
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Impact factor 2009
1.2
Citescore 2016
2.0
SJR
SRJ 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 qualitative measure of the journal's impact.
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0.482
SNIP
SNIP measures contextual citation impact by wighting citations based on the total number of citations in a subject field.
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0.799
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