Wolters Kluwer has announced Impact Factor gains across its Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) journal portfolio. The latest Impact Factor (IF) scores and specialty rankings are based on the 2015 Journal Citation Report (Thomson Reuters).
For LWW's 208 titles listed in the JCR Rankings, 46% of the journals had gains over the previous year with 15 titles increasing 25% or more. LWW publishes the #1 ranked titles in the following subject categories: Education: Scientific Disciplines, Orthopaedics, Peripheral & Vascular Disease, Rehabilitation, and Surgery.
In the top 5 ranks, LWW holds 22 spots across 15 specialties; in the top 10 rankings LWW holds 50 spots across 30 specialties; and rounding out the top 20 rankings, LWW holds 104 spots across 54 specialties.
Rankings are published annually in the Journal Citation Reports®, a registered trademark of Thomson Reuters. Impact Factor (IF) is a measurement of the frequency by which an article in a scholarly journal is cited in a particular year. It is considered by many to be a measure of a journal's influence and prestige.
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