Report Card
- 1 January 2004
- journal article
- Published by American Diabetes Association in Diabetes Care
- Vol. 27 (1) , 1
- https://doi.org/10.2337/diacare.27.1.1
Abstract
The editorial team is now half-way through our 3-year commitment. Although our term officially began 1 January 2002, assignment of new manuscripts started 1 July 2001 during a 6-month transition period with the outgoing editorial team completing evaluation of already submitted manuscripts and the incoming team taking over new submissions. I would like to share some aspects of the journal at this midway point with the readership of Diabetes Care . The impact factor, a measure of the frequency with which the “average” article in a journal has been cited in a particular year, is often used to compare the “clout” of a journal in its field. It is calculated as the number of current citations to articles that were published in the journal during the previous 2 years divided by the total number of articles published in the journal during that same period. Diabetes Care’s impact factor increased in 2002 from 5.0 to 5.5, ranking it 11th among 90 endocrine journals. In the calendar year 2002, 1,441 new submissions were received. If the recent monthly submission …This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: