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
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
