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First CytoJournal Peer-Reviewer's Retreat in 2006 - open access, peer-review, and impact factor
Vinod B Shidham1, Lynn Sandweiss, Barbara F Atkinson
1CytoJournal, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA. vshidham@mcw.edu
Abstract:
CytoJournal organized its first Peer-Reviewer's Retreat of 2006 during the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology Annual Meeting at Atlanta on Feb 12, 2006. The major topics discussed were open access, peer review, and impact factors. Representative participants volunteered to join the task force to prepare an instructional guide for peer-reviewing cytopathology manuscripts. Concern about the impact factor for CytoJournal was discussed. A feedback to its readers and authors was recommended. Impact factor calculation needs at least three years of journal statistics. It is only possible after two years from the time a journal is first accepted by Thomson-ISI for citation tracking. CytoJournal is still too new for an impact factor to be calculated. However, general progress of CytoJournal suggests an encouraging pattern for high impact factor.
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