Our New Impact Factor (or why the five year impact factor is much much much more important)

Yesterday Thomson-Reuters finally released their impact factors for 2013. And ours is … 5.322 Which has gone down by 0.602 from last year. This also means we’ve moved down to 15th in the Ecology rankings. And what is worse is that the Journal of Ecology has overtaken us! Impact factors are notorious for only covering 2 years of citations, which is not a long time … Continue reading Our New Impact Factor (or why the five year impact factor is much much much more important)