EDITORIAL Making an impact: the Jou n

Full list of author information is available at the end of the articleA = the number of times articles published in 2009 and 2010 were cited by indexed journals during 2011. B = the total number of "citable items " published by that journal in 2009 and 2010. ("citable items " include papers within the journal, and by publishing review papers and commentaries with high levels of self-citation [12-14]. Despite these significant limitations, it would appear that the Impact Factor will continue to play a role in journal rankings until a more appropriate metric takes its place, therefore it would be disingenuous of the edi-torial team at JFAR to suggest that the publication of our first Impact Factor is not of considerable interest to us