Cardiovascular Research 2006 71(3):403-404; doi:10.1016/j.cardiores.2006.06.023
Copyright © 2006, European Society of Cardiology
Cardiovascular Research 2005 impact factor: New all-time high
Hans Michael Piper
We are pleased to report to our readers, reviewers, and authors that our impact factor (IF) for the year 2005 has jumped to an all-time high value of 5.283. This is roughly what we had predicted last year [1], after observing a dip in the IF for 2004 that could be readily attributed to the transition in editorship at the beginning of 2003. As the year progresses, we continuously estimate the forthcoming IF with a reliable accuracy (see Fig. 1). These estimates already indicate today that the Journal's IF is continuing its upward trend toward a value close to 6 for next year. To put it simply: CVR is on the move!
Another indication of the Journal's improvement is the immediacy
index, which reflects how rapidly the articles from a particular
year are cited in that year (
Fig. 2). Our immediacy index has
almost doubled in the last seven years and is still increasing,
which means that CVR is being more quickly read and cited than
ever before.
The Journal's publications in 2004 and 2005 are proving to be
very well cited thus far and will make an important contribution
to the IF to be calculated next year and beyond. In these years
we initiated Rapid Communications, Viewpoint Editorials, and
the appearance of Articles-in-Press in the PubMed database.
This year, we have begun publishing two Review Focus Series/Issues,
starting with the March/April issues on caveolae and continuing
with an issue on pulmonary hypoxia in September. These are in
addition to our three annual Spotlight Issues. In a further
development, uncorrected proofs of accepted articles can now
be accessed online in less than 4 working days. Finally, we
are sponsoring a symposium at the 2006 World Congress of Cardiology
in Barcelona that is based on our Spotlight on Cardiac Protection
(May, 2006) and should attract some attention to the Journal.
We suspect that there are several factors responsible for our current success. These are the increased submission of higher quality original and review articles, the ability of our reviewers to spot a good paper, and the editors' skill at finding appropriate reviewers and sifting through their comments. It seems that the Journal has started on a positively synergistic trend: as our impact increases, we expect more and more of you to submit your best work to CVR, and the Editorial Team certainly looks forward to receiving your papers!
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- Piper H.M., Martinson E.A., Opthof T. The hills and valleys of an impact factor. Cardiovasc Res (2005) 67:175.[Free Full Text]
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