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It’s Impact Factor time!! All the movers and shakers will be looking through the citation reports from Thomson Reuters to see how the different publications are performing and find out who’s up and who’s down!! Yet again it’s very pleasing to report an increase at the Journal of Maps, this time going from 1.19 to 1.44. As I said last year, the 1.0 boundary is a watershed as that is the point at which there are more citations than articles published. This year’s editorial summarises this performance showing that the big change was an extra issue which increased the articles from 62 (2014) to 72. Given the in-built lag in the 2 year Impact Factor I would ordinarily expect a decrease so what this shows is that we have a “rising roll” of incoming citations. In short - excellent performance. Downloads finished the year on 33,000, up from 26,000.

And don’t forget to look at this year’s “Best Map” winner which is available for free download from Taylor and Francis.