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Table 1 Quality indicators of leading general medical and women's health specialty journals

From: Representation of women's health in general medical versus women's health specialty journals: a content analysis

Journal (Location)

Impact Factor *

Citation rate Immediacy Index *

Current Circulation †

Inclusion in MEDLINE

General medical

    

Annals (U.S)

10.097

1.959

91,097

Yes

BMJ (U.K.)

5.143

1.992

117,000

Yes

JAMA (U.S.)

11.435

3.728

3,705,000

Yes

Lancet (U.K.)

10.197

2.634

45,000

Yes

NEJM (U.S.)

28.857

6.445

183,000

Yes

Women's health speciality

    

HCWI (U.K.)

NR

NR

612

Yes

JWH (U.S.)

1.038

0.128

5,000

Yes

W&H (U.S.)

0.974

0.186

1,225

Yes

WHI (U.S.)

0.404

0.031

3,000

Yes

  1. * Institute for Scientific Information or Social Science Citation Index Journal Citation Reports, 1999. Impact factor is a measure of the frequency with which the "average article" in a journal has been cited in a particular year, calculated by dividing the number of current citations to articles published in the two pervious years by the total number of articles published in the two previous years. Immediacy Index is a measure of how quickly the "average article" in a journal is cited, calculated by dividing the number of citations to articles published in a given year by the number of articles published in that year. Higher values indicate higher impact. † Current circulation obtained from Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory, 39th Edition, 2001 and/or confirmed by communication with publisher. NR = not ranked Annals = Annals of Internal Medicine, BMJ = British Medical Journal, JAMA = Journal of the American Medical Association, NEJM = New England Journal of Medicine HCWI = Health Care for Women International, JWH = Journal of Women's Health & Gender-based Medicine, W&H = Women & Health, WHI = Women's Health Issues
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