Tonight (starting at 11pm ~ early afternoon in London) I attended the annual Editorial Board meeting for the journal Child Language Teaching and Therapy. There is lot of exciting work happening with the journal. In 2020 there were 106,755 full text downloads!
Australian authors were well represented in the most downloaded and most cited articles.
Congratulations to CSU authors Anna Glover, Jane McCormack, and Michelle Smith-Tamaray who were in the top 10 most downloaded papers (1,217 downloads) for "Collaboration between teachers and speech and language therapists: Services for primary school children with speech, language and communication needs"
We also learned about changes to the 2020 and 2021 impact factors from Clarivate:
• The 2020 Impact Factor (published in June 2021) will use the online publication date rather than the print publication date to calculate citations to a journal in 2020. This means that the next Impact Factor will only see changes in the numerator of the Impact Factor equation for journals that publish OnlineFirst. This is likely to lead to some inflation in Impact Factors and rankings across the majority of journals. Journals with very large backlogs might see even greater inflation.
• The 2021 Impact Factor (published in June 2022) will use the online publication date for both the citing (numerator) and cited articles (denominator) data, not the printed issue date. 2021 will likely see a universal drop in all Impact Factors compared to 2020 as a result.
