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Journal Impact Factor

The Journal Impact Factor (JIF) is a journal-level metric calculated from data indexed in the Web of Science Core

Collection. It should be used with careful attention to the many factors that influence citation rates, such as the volume of publication and citations characteristics of the subject area and type of journal. The Journal Impact Factor can complement expert opinion and informed peer review. In the case of academic evaluation for tenure, it is inappropriate to use a journal-level metric as a proxy measure for individual researchers, institutions, or articles. Learn more

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LIFE SCIENCES

I S S N

0024-3205

E I S S N

1879-0631

J C R A B B R E V I AT I O N

LIFE SCI

I S O A B B R E V I AT I O N

Life Sci.

Journal information

Publisher information

E D I T I O N

Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)

C AT E G O R Y

PHARMACOLOGY &

PHARMACY - SCIE

MEDICINE, RESEARCH &

EXPERIMENTAL - SCIE

L A N G U A G E S

English

R E G I O N

ENGLAND

1 S T E L E C T R O N I C J C R Y E A R

1997

P U B L I S H E R

PERGAMON- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD

A D D R E S S

THE BOULEVARD, LANGFORD LANE,

KIDLINGTON, OXFORD OX5 1GB, ENGLAND

P U B L I C AT I O N F R E Q U E N C Y

24 issues/year

2 0 2 1 J O U R N A L I M PA C T FA C TO R

6.780

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J O U R N A L I M PA C T FA C TO R W I T H O U T S E L F C I TAT I O N S

6.609

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Journal Impact Factor Trend 2021

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Journal Impact Factor

0.000 1.750 3.500 5.250 7.000

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75%

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JIF Percentile in Category

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021

JCR Years Journal Impact Factor

PHARMACOLOGY & PHARMACY - SCIE MEDICINE, RESEARCH & EXPERIMENTAL - SCIE

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Journal Citation Indicator (JCI) 1.41

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The Journal Citation Indicator (JCI) is the average Category Normalized Citation Impact (CNCI) of citable items

(articles & reviews) published by a journal over a recent three year period. The average JCI in a category is 1.

Journals with a JCI of 1.5 have 50% more citation impact than the average in that category. It may be used

alongside other metrics to help you evaluate journals.

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Total Citations 42,960

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The total number of times that a journal has been cited by all journals included in the database in the JCR year.

Citations to journals listed in JCR are compiled annually from the JCR years combined database, regardless of which JCR edition lists the journal.

Total Citations

0 10,740 21,480 32,220 42,960

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021

JCR Years

T I T L E C I TAT I O N CO U N T

 Ribavirin, Remdesivir, Sofosbuvir,

Galidesivir, and Tenofovir against SAR…

237

 Anti-HCV, nucleotide inhibitors,

repurposing against COVID-19

179

 The role of biomarkers in diagnosis of

COVID-19-A systematic review

161

 COVID-19: Melatonin as a potential

adjuvant treatment

125

 Myocardial injury and COVID-19:

Possible mechanisms

97

 In silico studies on therapeutic agents

for COVID-19: Drug repurposing…

94

 Virtual screening and repurposing of

FDA approved drugs against COVID-1…

94

 The immune system and COVID-19:

Friend or foe?

93

 GRP78: A cell's response to stress 86

 Contribution of monocytes and

macrophages to the local tissue…

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Journal Citation Indicator 0.000 0.352 0.705 1.057 1.410

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021

JCR Years

The Citation Distribution shows the frequency with which items published in the year or two years prior were cited in the JCR data year (i.e., the component of the calculation of the JIF). The graph has similar functionality as the JIF Trend graph,

including hover-over data descriptions for each data point, and an interactive legend where each data element's legend can be used as a toggle. You can view Articles, Reviews, or Non-Citable (other) items to the JIF numerator. Learn more

Citation distribution

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A R T I C L E C I TAT I O N M E D I A N

4

R E V I E W C I TAT I O N M E D I A N

8

U N L I N K E D C I TAT I O N S

537

Number of items

0 72 143 215 286

1 6 11 16 21 26 31 36 41 46 > 50

Times cited in JCR year

Articles Reviews Other Article Citation Median Review Citation Median

T I M E S C I T E D

0

A R T I C L E S

157

R E V I E W S

8

OT H E R

35

Open Access (OA)

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The data included in this tile summarizes the items published in the journal in the JCR data year and in the previous two years.

For example, in the 2020 JCR data, released in June 2021, the Open Access (OA) data show the publication model (Gold OA or subscription) of materials published in 2018, 2019 and 2020, and citations in 2020 to these items. This three-year set of published items is used to provide descriptive analysis of the content and community of the journal. Learn more

Items

TOTA L C I TA B L E

3,476

% O F C I TA B L E O A

4.98%

Citations*

TOTA L C I TA B L E

16,346

% O F C I TA B L E O A

4.01%

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G O L D O P E N A CC E S S

173 / 4.90%

S U B S C R I P T I O N A N D F R E E TO R E A D

3,303 /

93.62%

OT H E R ( N O N C I TA B L E I T E M S )

52 / 1.47%

CITABLENON-CITABLE

4.90%

93.62%

1.47%

*Citations in 2021 to items published in [2019 - 2021]

G O L D O P E N A CC E S S

655 / 3.86%

S U B S C R I P T I O N A N D F R E E TO R E A D

15,691 /

92.59%

OT H E R ( N O N C I TA B L E I T E M S )

25 / 0.15%

U N L I N K E D C I TAT I O N S

576 / 3.40%

CITABLENON-CITABLE

3.86%

92.59%

0.15%

3.40%

Rank by Journal Impact Factor

Journals within a category are sorted in descending order by Journal Impact Factor (JIF) resulting in the Category Ranking below. A separate rank is shown for each category in which the journal is listed in JCR. Data for the most recent year is presented at the top of the list, with other years shown in reverse chronological order. Learn more

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E D I T I O N

C AT E G O R Y

MEDICINE, RESEARCH & EXPERIMENTAL

33/139

J C R Y E A R J I F R A N K J I F Q U A R T I L E J I F P E R C E N T I L E

2021 33/139 Q1 2020 46/140 Q2 2019 56/139 Q2 2018 56/136 Q2 2017 53/133 Q2

76.62 67.50 60.07 59.19 60.53

E D I T I O N

C AT E G O R Y

PHARMACOLOGY & PHARMACY

36/279

J C R Y E A R J I F R A N K J I F Q U A R T I L E J I F P E R C E N T I L E

2021 36/279 Q1 2020 65/276 Q1 2019 76/271 Q2 2018 76/267 Q2 2017 78/261 Q2

87.28 76.63 72.14 71.72 70.31

Rank by Journal Citation Indicator (JCI)

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Citation network

Journals within a category are sorted in descending order by Journal Citation Indicator (JCI) resulting in the Category Ranking below. A separate rank is shown for each category in which the journal is listed in JCR. Data for the most recent year is

presented at the top of the list, with other years shown in reverse chronological order. Learn more

C AT E G O R Y

MEDICINE, RESEARCH & EXPERIMENTAL

28/195

J C R Y E A R J C I R A N K J C I Q U A R T I L E J C I P E R C E N T I L E

2021 28/195 Q1 2020 36/188 Q1 2019 42/187 Q1 2018 41/185 Q1 2017 38/185 Q1

85.90 81.12 77.81 78.11 79.73

C AT E G O R Y

PHARMACOLOGY & PHARMACY

30/361

J C R Y E A R J C I R A N K J C I Q U A R T I L E J C I P E R C E N T I L E

2021 30/361 Q1 2020 54/357 Q1 2019 56/353 Q1 2018 60/343 Q1 2017 65/336 Q1

91.83 85.01 84.28 82.65 80.80

4.5 years

The Cited Half-Life is the median age of the items in this journal that were cited in the JCR year. Half of a journal's cited items were published more recently than the cited half-life.

TOTA L N U M B E R O F C I T E S

42,960

N O N S E L F - C I TAT I O N S

42,225

S E L F - C I TAT I O N S

735

Cited Half-life

6.7 years

The Citing Half-Life is the median age of items in other publications cited by this journal in the JCR year.

TOTA L N U M B E R O F C I T E S

89,249

N O N S E L F - C I TAT I O N S

88,514

S E L F - C I TAT I O N S

735

Citing Half-life

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Content metrics

Journal Citation Relationships

Source data Average JIF Percentile

Cited Years

2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014

C I T E D Y E A R

# O F C I T E S F R O M 2 0 2 1

C U M U L AT I V E

%

# O F C I T I N G S O U R C E S

All years 42,960 citations 100.00% 4,283 sources

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2021 2,254 citations 5.25% 758 sources

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2020 8,741 citations 25.59% 1,878 sources

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Cited Data Citing Data

Top 20 journals citing LIFE SCI by number of citations

INT J MOL SCI: 1,615

FRONT PHARMACOL: 844

LIFE SCI: 735

MOLECULES: 671

BIOMED PHARMACOTHER: 517 FRONT CELL DEV BIOL: 447 SCI REP-UK: 446

ANTIOXIDANTS-BASEL: 420 FRONT IMMUNOL: 394 NUTRIENTS: 387 CELLS-BASEL: 360 J ETHNOPHARMACOL: 328 FRONT ONCOL: 320 CANCERS: 315 OXID MED CELL LONGEV: 308 FRONT PHYSIOL: 276 EUR J PHARMACOL: 267BIOMEDICINES: 253 INT IMMUNOPHARMACOL: 243PHARMACEUTICS: 236

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Additional metrics

This tile shows the breakdown of document types published by the journal. Citable Items are Articles and Reviews. For the purposes of calculating JIF, a JCR year considers the publications of that journal in the two prior years. Learn more

1,309 total citable items

A R T I C L E S R E V I E W S CO M B I N E D ( C ) OT H E R D O C U M E N T T Y P E S ( O )

P E R C E N TA G E

N U M B E R I N J C R Y E A R 2 0 2 1 ( A )

1,104 205 1,309 9 99%

N U M B E R O F R E F E R E N C E S ( B )

58,044 31,196 89,240 9 100%

R AT I O ( B /A ) 52.6 152.2 68.2 1.0

The Average Journal Impact Factor Percentile takes the sum of the JIF Percentile rank for each category under consideration, then calculates the average of those values.

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A L L C AT E G O R I E S A V E R A G E

81.95

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Science Citation Index Expanded

P H A R M A CO LO G Y &

P H A R M A C Y

87.28

M E D I C I N E , R E S E A R C H &

E X P E R I M E N TA L

76.62

Contributions by organizations

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Organizations that have contributed the most papers to the journal in the most recent three-year period. Learn more

R A N K O R G A N I Z AT I O N CO U N T

1 EGYPTIAN KNOWLEDGE BANK (EKB)

226

2 ZHENGZHOU

UNIVERSITY 97 3 TABRIZ

UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE

94

4 TEHRAN

UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES

77

5 CHINA MEDICAL

UNIVERSITY 76 6 UNIVERSIDADE DE

SAO PAULO 68

Contributions by country/region

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Countries or Regions that have contributed the most papers to the journal in the most recent three-year period.

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R A N K CO U N T R Y / R E G I O N

CO U N T

1 CHINA

MAINLAND 1774

2 Iran 365

3 India 330

4 USA 313

5 Brazil 252

6 Egypt 227

7 Japan 90

8 Turkey 71

9 Saudi

Arabia 62

Eigenfactor Score

 Normalized Eigenfactor

 Article influence score

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0.03205

The Eigenfactor Score is a reflection of the density of the network of citations around the journal using 5 years of cited content as cited by the Current Year. It considers both the number of citations and the source of those citations, so that highly cited sources will influence the network more than less cited

sources. The Eigenfactor calculation does not include journal self-

citations. Learn more

Eigenfactor Score

0.00000 0.00801 0.01603 0.02404 0.03205

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 JCR Years

6.89110

The Normalized Eigenfactor Score is the Eigenfactor score

normalized, by rescaling the total number of journals in the JCR each year, so that the average journal has a score of 1. Journals can then be compared and influence

measured by their score relative to 1. Learn more

Normalized Eigenfactor

0.00000 1.72277 3.44555 5.16832 6.89110

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 JCR Years

0.923

The Article Influence Score normalizes the Eigenfactor Score according to the cumulative size of the cited journal across the prior five years. The mean Article Influence Score for each article is 1.00. A score greater than 1.00 indicates that each article in the journal has above- average influence. Learn more

Article Influence Score

0.000 0.231 0.462 0.692 0.923

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 JCR Years

5 Year Impact Factor

6.044

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The 5-year Impact Factor is the average number of times articles from the journal published in the past five years have been cited in the JCR year. It is calculated by dividing the number of citations in the JCR year by the total number of articles published in the five previous years.

5 Year Impact Factor

0.000 1.511 3.022 4.533 6.044

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 JCR Years

Immediacy Index

1.722

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The Immediacy Index is the count of citations in the current year to the journal that reference content in this same year. Journals that have a consistently high

Immediacy Index attract citations rapidly. Learn more

Immediacy Index

0.000 0.500 1.000 1.499 1.999

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 JCR Years

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