Nature Impact Factor 2024 Trendhopper. We believe that impact factor is just one of a number of metrics that can be used to evaluate a journal, and a small number of highly cited papers can have a disproportionate effect on the mean. The chart shows the evolution of the average number of times documents published in a journal in the past two, three and four years have been cited in the current year.
The word of the year: The two years line is equivalent to journal impact factor โข.