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John F. SMYTH |
Impact factors remain an important part of a journal’s reputation. 2008 saw this increase yet again to 4.475 ranking it 36th out of 141 journals - signifying another excellent year for the Journal! The figure below shows that the impact factor has increased steadily year on year since 2004. This is particularly pleasing given that EJC has to compete with an ever increasing number of specialist cancer journals in a world of electronic readership. In 2008 1675 manuscripts were submitted again a continued year on year increase with the approximate rejection rate sitting at 80%. Although this is a big challenge for the Editors it shows the continually increasing success of the Journal and therefore for the 20% of authors whose manuscripts are accepted.
The very rapid response to authors with overall submission to publication time now averaging 22 weeks (up from 33 weeks) ensures that the reputation of the journal is maintained. The average time to publish fully citeable articles-in-press remains at approximately 6 weeks. On-line usage of EJC on Science Direct continues at the same high level of usage with 2008 showing more than 600 000 full text electronic downloads. The top 10 most frequently downloaded articles for 2008 show an excellent balance between clinical, experimental, translational science and epidemiology papers. This is encouraging to the Editors whose major challenge is to seek an appropriate balance between the different categories of manuscripts published in the EJC.
The 2008 Palliative Care Special issue was extremely well received at ASCO, and together with the highly topical subjects covered in other Special Issues (Cancer Control in Europe; CANULI; Advances in Translational Research) these have continued to show the excellent value of commissioned work.
2009 has already seen the publication of some other topical Special issues; RECIST and EUROCARE 4 with Cervical Cancer being the next in publication. The Editors greatly welcome suggestions for topics to be covered by special issues. EJC is the office journal of the European CanCer Organisation (ECCO). Their interactive webpage (www.ecco-org.eu) offers not only promotion of EJC papers through their quarterly highlights but also allows the opportunity to comment in any relevant way through the EJC blogs and we greatly welcome communication via this opportunity.
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Last updated 27-08-2009