Impact-factor In Biophysics

The impact factor of Biophysics journal is a measure reflecting the average number of citations to recent articles published in the journal. It is frequently used as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal within its field, with journals with higher impact factors deemed to be more important than those with lower ones. The impact factor was devised by Eugene Garfield, the founding father of the Institute for Scientific Information Biophysics Impact factors are calculated yearly ranging from 2013 for those journals that are indexed in the Journal Citation Reports. A journal can adopt editorial policies to extend its impact factor. For example, journals may publish a bigger percentage of review articles which generally are cited quite research reports. Thus review articles can raise the impact factor of the journal and review journals will therefore often have the very best impact factors in their respective fields.