4.327 is the first impact factor for the Journal of Advanced Research; June 2018 – A success story!

Abstract

* InCites journal citation reports@2018 clarivate analytics. The Journal of Advanced Research (JAR), the official Journal of Cairo University, is celebrating the release of its first impact factor concomitant with its 8th-anniversary. According to the Journal Citation Report released by Clarivate Analytics (formerly Thomson Reuters), the 2017 impact factor of JAR is 4.327. This bibliometric boost could only be achieved by the tremendous effort exerted by the editorial board, whereby strict rules were followed to select only the top quality articles (our Rejection Rate is 96% in 2018 and 93% as of 5/4/2019), based on research novelty, importance to the field, interdisciplinary interest and astounding conclusions. Besides providing a unique forum for publications’ integrity, the JAR melds multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences that may not fit into typical interdisciplinary periodicals, emphasizing the integral part ofholistic scientific knowledge for solving societal, environmental, infrastructural, medical, and public health problems. The Journal of Advanced Research has gained greater international exposure when indexed in 2 databases powered by Clarivate Analytics; Emerging Source Citation Index (ESCI) and Science Citation index Expanded (SCIE) in 2015 and 2017 respectively, before the release of its 1st impact factor. With an Impact Factor of 4.327 for the year 2017, the JAR has achieved the top 10 ranks among multidisciplinary journals worldwide in the 3 major journal databases; Clarivate Analytics (9 out 64), Scopus-Citescore (6 out 87) and Scimago (9 out 116) in 2017. It also ranks first among Multidisciplinary Journals in the Middle East according to both Clarivate Analytics and Scimago in the same year (Table 1). This achievement has been a very good start, but we still have a long way to go by exerting formidable effort not only to maintain our impact factor but also to increase it.