Family Practice Vol. 19, No. 6, 575-576
© Oxford University Press 2002
Editorial |
The impact of Family Practice
Guys, Kings & St Thomas School of Medicine, London, UK; E-mail: roger.jones@kcl.ac.uk
Jones R. The impact of Family Practice. Family Practice 2002; 19: 575576.
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Someone once remarked that only three things matter if a restaurant is to be successfulposition, position and position. The same could be said about journals, where the most important criteria are citation, citation and citation. It was a particular pleasure, therefore, to learn that the steadily rising Impact Factor of Family Practice now stands at 1.16, which is higher than journals such as the American Family Physician (0.94), the Canadian Family Physician (0.35), the Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London (0.83), the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (0.72), the Postgraduate Medical Journal (0.44), Primary