Published in:
01-04-2022 | Editorial
Looking back, looking ahead
Authors:
Joseph Flynn, Lesley Rees
Published in:
Pediatric Nephrology
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Issue 4/2022
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Excerpt
As 2021 comes to a close, Pediatric Nephrology has much to celebrate, including a renewed publishing contract between IPNA and Springer, and a substantial increase in impact factor to 3.714 for 2020/21 from 2.676 for 2019. The higher impact factor reflects a notable increase in the number of citations of papers published in the journal, which was accompanied by an increase in the number of papers downloaded from the journal website. We also have been able to maintain a rapid time to first decision of just 15 days, and have reduced our backlog of online-only papers by expanding the number of articles published in each issue of the journal. …
