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    Before you submit, we recommend familiarizing yourself with the following.

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SCOPUS
Emerging Sources Citation Index
TD Net Discovery Service
ProQuest-ExLibris Summon
ProQuest-ExLibris Primo
Portico
OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
Naver
Google Scholar
EBSCO Discovery Service
Dimensions
DOAJ
CNPIEC
CNKI
CLOCKSS

Annual Journal Metrics

  • 2022 Citation Impact
    11.2 - 2-year Impact Factor
    11.3 - 5-year Impact Factor
    9.751 - SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper)

    2022 Speed
    7 days submission to first editorial decision for all manuscripts (Median)
    120 days submission to accept (Median)

    2022 Usage 
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    35 Altmetric mentions