The Milbank Quarterly’s Impact Factor Score Goes Up—Over 5

The 2013 Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) Impact Factors were recently released—and The Milbank Quarterly had a great year.

The ISI impact factor is the industry standard—and measures the number of citations a journal receives in a given year to research and review articles published in the previous two years. For 2013, the Quarterly had an impact factor of 5.061, an increase of .417 (the Impact Factor was 4.644 last year). It received 2,531 citations to all articles during the 2013 impact factor period, an increase of over 200 citations from the preceding year. The Quarterly remains 1st out of 70 journals in the Health Policy & Services category, a ranking it has proudly held since 2009, and 3rd out of 85 journals in the Health Care Sciences & Services category.

“Reaching a ranking over 5 is an honor— it means researchers and readers continue to turn to the Quarterly for authoritative insights,” says Howard Markel, Editor-in-Chief of the Quarterly. The new ISI ranking also reflects the excellent editorial work of Brad Gray, who served as Editor for most of 2013, and the quality of the article submissions and peer review process.

“The new score reflects well on the mission of the Quarterly—and its vital importance in the current health care environment in the US and globally,” says Christopher Koller, Publisher of the Quarterly and President of the Milbank Memorial Fund.