Tonight I enjoyed participating in the 2022 International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology Editorial Board meeting. Congratulations to the editors Libby Cardell and Natalie Munro on the excellent quality of papers and the trajectory of the journal.
2021 statistics: IJSLP had 319,000 downloads/views. The journal’s 2021 Impact Factor is 1.820 and 5 Year Impact Factor is 2.358. IJSLP is rated Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile and the 2021 Cite Score is 3.7. It has a 27% acceptance rate.
I was delighted to see that two of our papers were in the most cited for 2021:
McGill, N., Crowe, K., & McLeod, S. (2020). “Many wasted months”: Stakeholders’ perspectives about waiting for speech-language pathology services. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 22(3), 313–326. https://doi.org/10.1080/17549507.2020.1747541 [11 citations]
McLeod, S., Davis, E., Rohr, K., McGill, N., Miller, K., Roberts, A., Thornton, S., Ahio, N., & Ivory, N. (2020). Waiting for speech-language pathology services: A randomised controlled trial comparing therapy, advice and device. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 22(3), 372–386. https://doi.org/10.1080/17549507.2020.1731600 [10 citations]
Additionally, the article with the top Altmetric score was ours:
McLeod, S. (2018). Communication rights: Fundamental human rights for all. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 20(1), 3–11. https://doi.org/10.1080/17549507.2018.1428687
[191 altmetric score]
