Further analysis of the impact factors and submission information for the Journal of Child Neurology

Now in its nineteenth volume year, the Journal of Child Neurology continues its preeminence among child neurology journals. The Institute of Scientific Information impact factor value for the year 2002 of 1.338 places the Journal of Child Neurology seventy-first in rank among the 138 clinical neurology journals. Since 1998, the rejection rate for manuscripts has been nearly 25%, with more than half of the accepted manuscripts originating in North America. In its first IS volumes, the journal published 2144 items as listed in the PubMed database of the National Library of Medicine, and for 2003, the PubMed database indexed 176 published items from the Journal of Child Neurology.