Impact and Information
Print ISSN: 2397-8554
Online ISSN: 2397-8562
Frequency: 6 issues per year
Impact Factor: 3.4 2023 Journal Impact Factor, Journal Citation Reports (Web of Science Group, 2024)
The Impact Factor is a measure of the average number of citations an article in the journal will receive within the first 2 years of publication. It is calculated by dividing the number of times articles were cited by the total number of articles that are citable.
5-year Impact Factor: 3.8 2023 Journal Impact Factor, Journal Citation Reports (Web of Science Group, 2024)
Calculated as the number of times articles published in the past 5 years have been cited in the stated year divided by the number of articles which are citable.
Journal Citation Indicator: 0.53 2023 Journal Impact Factor, Journal Citation Reports (Web of Science Group, 2024)
The Journal Citation Indicator is a category-normalised metric. A Journal Citation Indicator of 1.0 means that published papers, across the journal, received citations equal to the average (mean) for the category.
Journal Ranking
138/313 (Second Quartile) Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Category, Journal Citation Reports (Web of Science Group, 2024)
24/109 (First Quartile) Biology Category, Journal Citation Reports (Web of Science Group, 2024)
Cited half-life: 3.6
The average age of articles cited by Emerging Topics in Life Science, where 50% of the articles cited will have been published in the last 6 years or so.
Immediacy Index: 0.5
This is the average number of times an article is cited in the year it is published.
Article influence score: 1.213
The article influence score aims to measure the influence of a journal's articles over the first 5 years following publication. It considers where articles are cited as well as how often, with a citation in a ‘higher influence’ journal weighted more than those in ‘lower influence’ journals.
An article influence score over 1.00 indicates articles published in the journal have an above-average influence.
Median time from submission to first decision in 2023 (following full peer review): 40 days
Median time from acceptance to online Version of Record publication in 2023: 15 days
Emerging Topics in Life Sciences is abstracted/indexed in:
- CAB International
- Chemical Abstracts Service
- CNKI
- EBSCO
- Google Scholar
- MEDLINE
- NSTL
- PubMed Central (open access content)
- Scopus
- Web of Science Core Collection: Emerging Science Citation Index
- BIOSIS Previews
- BIOSIS Review Reports and Meetings
Emerging Topics in Life Sciences is digitally archived in:
- CLOCKSS
- Portico
