Executive Board Meeting for International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology

Tonight was the Executive Board Meeting for International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology

• Editors: Elizabeth Cardell and Natalie Munro
• Executive Board Members: Sharynne McLeod, Lyndsey Nickels, Mark Onslow, Liz Ward, Suze Leitão, Kirrie Ballard, Anne Whitworth,  Chris Code (UK), Edwin Yiu (HK)  

IJSLP continues to publish high quality impactful papers and our conversations were broad-ranging and included a number of innovations.

A few items on the agenda that related to our team:

• Our special issue about Communication, Swallowing and the Sustainable Development Goals has had 40,703 downloads and a mean citation rate of 2.28
• Most read article in the last year #2: Communication for all and the Sustainable Development Goals (3686 downloads)
•  Top Altmetric score in the last year #1: Communication rights: Fundamental human rights for all (196)
• Top cited article in the last year #2: “Many wasted months”: Stakeholders’ perspectives about waiting for speech-language pathology services
• Top cited article in the last year #6: Waiting for speech-language pathology services: A randomised controlled trial comparing therapy, advice and device
  

Child Language Teaching and Therapy editorial board meeting

Tonight I attended the 2023 editorial board meeting for Child Language Teaching and Therapy. I have been on the board since 2007. In 2022 there were over 130,000 downloads. The 2022 impact factor will be released tomorrow. In 2021 the impact factor was 0.912. There have been and will be a number of changes in impact factor methodology over the past few years - including that tomorrow the impact factors go from 3 decimal places to 1.

The meeting indicated that there continue to be manuscript submissions from across the world. 14 articles/323 pages were published in 2022 - there is a flexible page budget. In 2022 there was an 18% acceptance rate.