Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication. However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
Usage, speed and acceptance data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics.
The total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Seybold Reports Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand