Autoimmune diseases are an abnormal immune response when body tissues are attacked by its own immune system. It can diagnose by unusual antibodies circulating in the body. There are more than 80 types of identified autoimmune disease, mostly have same symptoms as inflammation, redness, pain, swelling and heat and can be treated by immunosuppression drugs which slows down the immune response. The impact factor of journal provides quantitative assessment tool for grading, evaluating, sorting and comparing journals of similar kind. It reflects the average number of citations to recent articles published in science and social science journals in a particular year or period, and is frequently used as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal within its field. It is first devised by Eugene Garfield, the founder of the Institute for Scientific Information. The impact factor of a journal is evaluated by dividing the number of current year citations to the source items published in that journal during the previous two years.
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