Corresponding author. W.B. Theel, Erasmus Medical Center, Dept. of Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Dr. Molewaterplein 40, 3015, GD, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Tel: +31 6 52905488
The Impact Factor measures the average number of citations received in a particular year by papers published in the journal during the two preceding years.
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SRJ is a prestige metric based on the idea that not all citations are the same. SJR uses a similar algorithm as the Google page rank; it provides a quantitative and qualitative measure of the journal's impact.
See moreSNIP measures contextual citation impact by wighting citations based on the total number of citations in a subject field.
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