Journal Impact Factor??

[mazzynaqsh]

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Does anybody know the impact factor of Anesthesia and Analgesia Journal??


Thanks

 

[rsgillmd]

Does anybody know the impact factor of Anesthesia and Analgesia Journal??


Thanks

Google is your friend. Impact factor = 3.08

http://www.researchgate.net/journal/1526-7598_Anesthesia_and_analgesia

 

[mazzynaqsh]

thanks rsgillmd does that mean its not that great of a journal to publish in? im an IMG looking to boost my CV with some publications.

 

[KLPM]

Yeah it's a terrible journal. Don't publish.

 

[mazzynaqsh]

reason i ask is that i may have an option to publish in a higher impact factor journal, but I wanted to ask if Anesthesia and Analgesia was also good to publish in??

 

[Orin]

Most folks aren't googling IFs when they look at your CV. Clinical faculty who are looking at you for residency might be more impressed with a publication in their major clinical journals as compared with a publication in a higher impact journal in another field.

But if it's between Anesthesiology and A&A, well I guess the former has the higher impact factor.

 

[cchoukal]

The choice of journal includes a number of factors in balance. Assuming the scope of your article matches well with what the journal typically publishes, you'll have to balance the high impact factor agents the lower acceptance rate juxtaposed against your tolerance for waiting (while higher journals reject you and you resubmit elsewhere).

In other words, if time isn't a factor, shoot for the stars. You'll probably be rejected, but the. You'll just resubmit at a less competitive journal. If you want your name in print sooner, obviously you should aim lower.

 

[BigMAC3]

Of course it will help to publish in an anesthesiology related journal. Anesthesiology and Anesthesia and Analgesia are both good journals. Sub-specialty journals always have lower impact factors than general interest -- there's a smaller group reading, and fewer citations.

For example, I published in a journal with 9.7 impact factor -- which is great for my research career, but it was basic science -- occasionally I had an interviewer who was into research and asked me about it, but it was outside the area of expertise of a lot of my interviewers so only came up occasionally. For the purposes of residency interviews, something in an anesthesia journal probably would have been more helpful.

That said, I wouldn't start a research project with the idea of publishing in a specific journal -- do research for the experience of doing research, obtain some results, evaluate the quality and significance of your results -- then decide where you want to try publishing.