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Journal Impact Factor

"Journal Impact Factor" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A quantitative measure of the frequency on average with which articles in a journal have been cited in a given period of time.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Journal Impact Factor" by people in this website by year, and whether "Journal Impact Factor" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 15 publications over 7 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2021
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