How much impact has the impact factor?

The dramatic impact of Coronavirus outbreak on air quality: Has it saved as much as it has killed so far?

The outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was first reported from Wuhan, China, on December 31st, 2019. As the number of coronavirus infections has exceeded 100,000 with toll deaths of about 5000 worldwide as of early March, 2020, scientists and researchers are racing to investigate the nature of this virus and evaluate the short and long term effects of this disease. Despite it...

Does the impact factor have too much impact?

Clinics has an Impact Factor

Our first Impact Factor comes five years after the first CLINICS issue circulated and we are extremely happy to inform our readers that Clinics achieved IF = 1.591, which is the third highest ever for any Brazilian Journal. This IF was achieved with 21% of autocites, perfectly within the ethical limits set by ISI-Thomson. One other piece of good news is the fact that slightly more than 80% of t...

JGLD has got its first impact factor.

Four years after changing the journal name in order to adapt to its international development (formerly it was called the Romanian Journal of Gastroenterology) and two years after their last message to the readers, announcing the indexing of the journal by ISI/Thomson Reuters [1], the Editors believe it is time for a new message. And they have a good reason for this: the Journal of Gastrointest...

ULTRASONOGRAPHY: how to raise the impact factor

Since 2014, when we renamed the official journal of the Korean Society of Ultrasound in Medicine (KSUM), Ultrasonography has been published in English only with a full Open Access policy, and the number of citations of Ultrasonography articles by articles in other journals has increased [1]. All of the e-published articles in the “ahead-of-print” status as well as all officially issued articles...