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The recent increase of the Journal of Cell Signaling and Communication’ 2020 Impact Factor to 5.782, and its growing audience in the scientific community, provides an opportunity to step back and look at different aspects of this indicator’s value. The take home message is that the top-ten major contributions to the 2020 ranking originated from North America and Europe followed by India with a high percentage of CCN-related publications and an excellent proportion of Editorial Board members’ contributions to the Top10 best citations for the 2018–2019 period.
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For a thorough analysis, see “Measuring Your Impact: Impact Factor, Citation Analysis, and other Metrics: Citation Analysis” University library. https://researchguides.uic.edu/if.
See clarivate.com.
A critical analysis of the impact factor notion was previously published in these columns (Perbal 2015).
For example citations of the Editorial that was published with two members of HUGO upon the official recognition of the CCN acronym by the nomenclature committee, even though the citation number published by Springer reached 53 at the time this article was prepared.
According to Ozonoff and Grandjean (2010).
Some quipped that it was worthy of the designation of “hell on wheels” (after the TV series)!
See A new turn for JCCS, Perbal (2021).
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The ship would not have been able to resist the editorial turmoils of all sorts without our personal and professional interactions with our scientific colleagues and friends who helped us either by submitting good quality articles or actively participating to review the growing incoming number of submissions. They all know what we owe them. It is also my duty and great pleasure to congratulate and thank the Editorial Board members who immediately responded positively to my invitation that aimed at presenting the best possible image of JCCS scientific diversity and quality (Perbal 2020). Let me express our profound appreciation to all of them. The ship was also kept afloat thanks to the considerable efforts of Annick who spent many days checking the quality of manuscript production and avoided both Andrew and myself a few breakdowns. Finally, I wish to acknowledge Herman Yeger for his infallible contributions to the ICCNS and JCCS. Since his stalwart support for my original project of organizing the ICCNS, that I discussed with him at the 1999 AACR meeting in Philadelphia, Herman has played a pivotal role as a wise advisor and moderator in many of my ICCNS and JCCS proposals.
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Perbal, B. The driving forces behind the impressive progression of the journal of cell communication and signaling (JCCS). J. Cell Commun. Signal. 15, 475–481 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12079-021-00641-3
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