We are delighted to let our Members know that The Journal of Physiology’s Impact Factor (IF) has risen this year and we are now over the 5.0 barrier with an IF of 5.037. This is a great achievement and will doubtless mean that JP will now be an even more appealing journal for top-quality submissions.
Although the IF is the main metric to which people look, we are also pleased that JP continues to rank highly in the other citation metrics. Once again, JP is the most highly cited journal in Physiology (just under 49K cites last year) and we still rank joint first in the Cited Half-Life. JP has climbed the ranks for IF and Immediacy Index, and maintained its rank for the 5-year IF and Eigenfactor Score. JP fell in rank for the number or articles published (not a citation metric, but is crucial to the calculation) and Article Influence Score (although the actual figure only dropped by 1.8%).
Although the IF for Experimental Physiology (EP) decreased this year, it has seen an increase in ranking for Total Cites and Immediacy Index. It maintains its position for the number of articles published and Article Influence Score.
We hope that we can build on this over the coming years.