Poison can be defined as a substance which causes adverse reaction in human or animal systems when introduced into body through various ways accidental or deliberate methods. These substances will be capable to bring dreadful effects in living systems. The major poisons are venoms, chemicals, bacterial toxins, toxic gases etc. The various ways of poisoning includes ingestion, inhalation, injection, or absorption.
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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