Journal of the American Medical Directors Association: the state of the journal.

摘要

The past few years have shown excellent growth in the Journal, both in quality and quantity. In 2012, we increased the number of pages and, by also having online-only publications, greatly increased the number of articles published. We are very happy to announce that in 2013, the Journal will be published monthly. In parallel with the increase in number and quality of articles submitted, there has been a continuous increase in the Journal's Impact Factor (Figure 1 ). The Journal now has the highest impact factor of all clinical geriatric journals and the fourth highest impact of all geriatrics and gerontology journals for 2011. The most cited articles in 2009 and 2010 (the years used to calculate the impact factor) are given in Table 1. These articles covered areas such as nutrition, vitamin D, polypharmacy, frailty, and sarcopenia. The article demonstrating that the medical director certification from the American Medical Directors Association improves nursing home quality was also highly cited. The improving quality of the Journal is further demonstrated by the high number of citations already received by articles published in the Journal in 2012 (Table 2).