Modeling and Simulation Analysis of Journal Impact Factor Dynamics Based on Submission and Citation Rules

Figure 7

Comparison of average quality and impact factors of journals within 13 years. On the left, colors indicate groups of no significant pairwise differences, with greater results ( and ) shown in dark red, the ones in between and in light red or light blue, and worse results ( and ) in dark blue. On the right are the illustrations of parallelcoords and Gaussian fitting, respectively.