The prominent academic journal Chemosphere is the latest title to lose its impact factor—a metric often controversially used to evaluate researchers and their work—after retracting a series of ...

A Journal Impact Factor of 2.5 means that, on average, the articles published one or two years ago have been cited two and a half times. The citing works may be articles published in the same journal.

A Journal Impact Factor of 2.5 means that, on average, the articles published one or two years ago have been cited two and a half times. The citing works may be articles published in the same journal.