Rising in the ranks with our impact

Editorial: The message is simple – the Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport has again been recognised internationally for the quality and impact of the papers we publish. What I am referring to is the recent release of the Journal Impact Factors for 2014. Impact Factors are essentially a metric that describes the journal’s citation influence, and tend to be used vigorously by journals and their publishers to indicate esteem and to attract further high-quality papers. The impact factor is calculated by counting all the citations in a given year (in this case 2014) of the papers that were published in that journal in the previous two years (in this case, 2012 and 2013), and then dividing this by the total number of papers published in that same 2-year period