An international research community

The Editors are pleased to announce that the International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning was again highly ranked by ISI’s annual “Impact Factor” report released several days ago. IjCSCL ranks #11 of the 203 journals ranked by ISI in the field of Education and Educational Research and it ranks #6 of the 83 journals ranked by ISI in the field of Information Science & Library Science. IjCSCL is the #1 journal published by Springer and ranked by ISI in each of these categories. IjCSCL has an impact factor of 2.243 for last year and a 5-year impact factor of 3.000. The impact factor for 2011 is the number of citations of the journal’s 2009 and 2010 articles cited during 2011 in ISI-ranked journals, divided by the number of the journal’s 2009 and 2010 articles. That is, articles printed in ijCSCL during 2009 or 2010 were cited in ISIranked journals on average 21⁄4 times during 2011. The ISI impact factor (published annually by the Institute for Scientific Information at Thomson Reuters) is widely considered the most important ranking of academic journals. In many universities, it is considered in evaluating authors for tenure and promotion. IjCSCL supports an international research community. It receives submissions from 53 countries. About 7,000 universities and research institutions around the world subscribe to it, making its content available to millions of people through the Springer website. We also maintain the ijCSCL.org website with the full text of all articles freely available to the whole world; there have been two million hits to this site so far. Several thousand articles are downloaded every month from the Springer.com and ijCSCL.org websites. This indicates that ijCSCL continues to be read and cited by many researchers in the active computer-supported collaborative learning Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (2012) 7:341–345 DOI 10.1007/s11412-012-9155-y