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Impact and Information

Print ISSN: 2397-8554

Online ISSN: 2397-8562


Frequency: Six issues per year

Total article views in 2024: 192 K


Impact Factor: 3.3 2024 Impact Factor, Journal Citation Reports (Web of Science Group, 2025)

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: 3.9 2024 Impact Factor, Journal Citation Reports (Web of Science Group, 2025)

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: 0.42 2024 Impact Factor, Journal Citation Reports (Web of Science Group, 2025)

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: 144/319 (second quartile) Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Category, Journal Citation Reports (Web of Science Group, 2025) 


Cited half-life: 4.5 years

The Cited Half-Life is the median age of the items in Emerging Topics in Life Sciences that were cited in the Journal Citation Reports year.


Immediacy Index: 0.3

The Immediacy Index is the average number of times an article is cited in the year it is published.


Article Influence Score: 1.187

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  (fol4lowing full peer review): 42 days

Median time from acceptance to online Version of Record publication in 2024: 21 days


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