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. Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2022)

The Immediacy Index is a measure of the speed at which content in a particular journal is picked up and referred to and is calculated by dividing the number of citations to articles published in a given year by the number of articles published in that year.

CiteScore measures the average citations received per peer-reviewed document published in this title. CiteScore values are based on citation counts in a range of four years (e.g. 2019-2022) to peer-reviewed documents (articles, reviews, conference papers, data papers and book chapters) published in the same four calendar years, divided by the number of these documents in these same four years (e.g. 2019– 22).