BJS news: new website, new app and the newest impact factor!

IF is out today and BJS is climbing! Although not yet back at the all-time-high in 2008 (at 4.921) it is currently at 4.839.

We are now second overall! (Only after Annals - which continues to decrease considerably, from 7.49 to 6.33 = biggest drop in the category!).

Excluding the others in the "surgery" category (some of which are really not competitors, such as Am J Surg Pathol, Endoscopy and Am J Transplant):

Third place is held by JACS (steady from last year at 4.5),
Surg Obest Rel Dis has increased to 4.12
Ann Surg Oncol, steady at 4.12
Archives declined from 4.4 to 4.1
Surgery declined to 3.3….etc etc

This just to give a few details form the surgical field of the IF.

Good thing is that we are among the very few top surgical journals with an increase (and in IF, when several others see no progress or even continued decline! For what it' worth (yes, IF is not everything) I think it is a sign of the efforts put into the Journal (I hope).

Next year we'll break the 5.0 barrier!

And... the newly refreshed web-page of the BJS is out, please click here for a view!

Finally, and a much awaited tool for BJS readers, is the new BJS app for iPad, which is downloadable at the BJS homepage, or through this link here.