AACC, a global scientific and medical professional organization dedicated to better health through laboratory medicine, has announced that both the impact factor and immediacy index of its journal Clinical Chemistry have risen to 8.327 and 8.729, respectively, in the 2020 Clarivate Analytics Journal Citation Reports. These rankings reaffirm that Clinical Chemistry is the top journal on medical laboratory technology—a position it has held for years—and speak to the impact that the journal’s science has had on patient care, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Laboratory medicine is essential to high quality healthcare and quality of life—something that has never been more evident than over the past year and a half as the world has grappled with COVID-19. Throughout the course of the pandemic, clinical laboratory testing has played, and continues to play, a central role in managing the virus’s spread. And as the leading international journal of laboratory medicine, Clinical Chemistry has been committed to driving progress in coronavirus testing by highlighting innovative research at the forefront of the field. The journal has also continued to publish peer-reviewed papers that advance the full gamut of clinical testing for conditions ranging from diabetes to cancer to heart disease. These papers are selected based on the novelty of their findings as well as the rigorousness of the scientific work they detail.
Clinical Chemistry’s impact factor and immediacy index are a testament to the journal’s significant influence, as well as the relevance and timeliness of the research it publishes. A journal’s impact factor is determined by the number of times articles published in the journal are cited over a two-year period, while the immediacy index is determined by the journal citations in a single calendar year. Both are calculated by Clarivate Analytics, a recognized authority for evaluating the usefulness of a journal.
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