Wolters Kluwer Health, a global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, has announced impact factor gains across its prestigious Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) journal portfolio and Medknow open access portfolio with the release of the latest Impact Factor (IF) scores and specialty rankings, based on the 2013 Journal Citation Reports® (JCR), (Thomson Reuters).
The Medknow open access journal portfolio continues to gain influence globally with 58 percent of the 23 titles listed in the JCR enjoying an increase in their IF rating over the previous year. Titles with notable gains include the Nigerian Journal of Clinical Practice, the official publication of Medical and Dental Consultants' Association of Nigeria; and the Journal of Cancer Research and Therapeutics, the official publication of Association of Radiation Oncologists of India (AROI).
For LWW's 198 titles listed in the JCR Rankings, 52 percent of the journals had gains over the previous year with 20 titles increasing 25 percent or more. Impressive gains were noted in LWW's rankings across categories, including five number one ranked titles in their specialty: Anesthesiology (Anesthesiology); Annals of Surgery (Surgery); Circulation (Peripheral & Vascular Disease); Circulation Research (Hematology); and Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation (Rehabilitation).
In the top 5 rankings, LWW publishes 28 titles across 22 healthcare specialties; in the top 10 rankings, LWW publishes 60 journals across 38 specialties; and rounding out the top 20 rankings, LWW publishes 112 titles across 48 specialties. In the Social Science Index, 55 percent of the LWW journals have had an increase in their Impact Factor. Other titles showing impressive gains include the Journal of Neurologic Physical Therapy, moving 76 percent (IF 2.891), and the Implant Dentistry, increasing 73 percent (IF 2.427).
Top ranking LWW published journals span many core and specialty medical, nursing, and allied health categories in the JCR Science Index.
In the Social Science Index, LWW publishes five of the top 25 ranked journals in the Nursing category of the 104 nursing titles represented. In addition to Cancer Nursing, LWW titles include #11 ranked Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing (IF 1.809); #19 ranked Advances in Skin & Wound Care (IF 1.634); #21 ranked Nursing Research (IF 1.500); and #24 ranked JONA, The Journal of Nursing Administration (IF 1.373).
