June 29, 2011

International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology's first ISI impact factor

Today the International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology received it's first ISI Web of Knowledge Journal Citation Index impact factor. Our impact factor is 1.12 and it has been ranked 28th (of 62) in the world for all rehabilitation journals.
Speech Pathology Australia, informahealthcare and the editorial board have been working on this for 6+ years, so this ranking is a great achievement.
Thank you to EVERYONE who has supported the journal in so many ways (as authors, readers, citers, reviewers, board members etc).


Professor Fiona Gibbon (Ireland) described how the day progressed as the news was learned by the speech pathology community: "it was like a slow-motion Mexican wave of congratulatory emails as people turned on their computers around the world!"

L-R Prof Deborah Theodoros, Prof Sharynne McLeod (current editor),
Alla Kaploun (informa), Prof Beth Armstrong (previous editor)