A number of Springer Nature journals have Impact Factors, and some journals are on track to receive impact factors in the future. For any journal to have an impact factor it must have published for at least two years, as well as be accepted into a relevant Clarivate Analytics database, such as ESCI (Emerging Sources Citation Index. Below, you can see instructions for how to view the Impact Factor of a journal depending on the Springer Nature imprint. Please note that if there is no Impact Factor given on a journal page, this is because it has not been assigned one.
Information on how Impact Factors are calculated can be found on Clarivate Analytics’ webpage, here.
Please note that most Springer Nature owned journals signatories of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA). DORA is concerned with reducing the focus on impact factors to concentrate on improving the methods used by funding agencies, institutions and other organisations to assess the value of research output. As signatories of DORA you can find more metrics that track the impact of an article on the individual article’s page, such as views, downloads and citations. For more information, please visit our policy pages here.
BMC and SpringerOpen
Once on the journal website you can view the Impact Factor by clicking on 'About'; the Impact Factor will appear on the right side of the page. Please see the example below:
Nature Portfolio
Once on the journal website you can view the Impact Factor by clicking on 'About the journal’, ‘Journal Metrics', and scroll down the page.
Palgrave MacMillan
Once on the journal website you can view the Impact Factor at the top right of the page.
Springer
The Impact Factor is shown in right side of the "Overview" section of the journal's homepage:
