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| Evaluation indexes | Meaning |
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| Impact factor | The total number of citations received by papers published in the journal in the past 2 years, calculated within the current year |
| Ratio of international papers | It refers to the proportion of papers published by international authors in a given source journal, relative to the total number of papers. This ratio serves as an indicator for measuring the level of international exchange in the journal |
| Ratio of funded papers | It represents the proportion of papers in a source journal that have received funding compared to the total number of papers |
| Average number of authors | It refers to the average number of authors per paper in a source journal |
| Average number of citations | It refers to the average number of references cited per paper in a source journal |
| Citing half-life | It refers to the time span within which half of the references cited by the journal were published. This indicator reflects the novelty of the literature utilized by the authors |
| H-index | An author-level metric that measures both the productivity and citation impact of the publications |
| Other-cite ratio | It refers to the proportion of citations received by a journal from other journals, out of the total number of citations it has received |
| Immediacy index | It is an indicator that represents the rate at which a journal receives immediate citations and primarily describes the citation impact of papers published in the journal within the same year. The specific calculation is as follows: immediacy index = number of citations received by papers published in the journal in the current year/total number of papers published by the journal in the current year |
| Disciplinary impact index | It refers to the proportion of journals citing a particular journal within its discipline, relative to the total number of journals in that discipline |
| Disciplinary diffusion index | It represents the ratio of the number of journals citing a particular journal within the scope of a statistical source to the total number of journals in its respective discipline |
| Citation num | It refers to the number of journals that cite the evaluated journal, reflecting the extent of its usage and referencing by other journals |
| Total citations | It refers to the total number of times that papers published in the journal have been cited since its inception, calculated within the current year |
| Cited half-life | It refers to the time period within which half of the total citations received by the journal in the current year were published |
| Literature selection rate | It is the ratio of the number of papers selected based on the selection criteria of the statistical source to the total number of papers published by the journal |
| Number of papers | It refers to the total number of papers published by the source journal in the current year |
| Number of regions | It represents the number of regions covered by the papers published in the source journal |
| Number of institutions | It refers to the number of institutions affiliated with the authors of the papers published in the source journal |
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