PRESS RELEASE
Monday, July 9, 2018
CLAE ‘punching above its weight’ as journal’s impact factor rises for fourth straight year
A journal dedicated to contact lenses and the anterior eye has seen its impact factor rise for the fourth successive year – ensuring it remains one of the key publications for eye care professionals.
Contact Lens & Anterior Eye – the official journal of the British Contact Lens Association (BCLA) – has received a 2017 impact factor rating of 1.865, up from 1.783 the year before.
The rating is calculated by adding the number of citations in 2017 to any content published in 2015 or 2016 and dividing that total by the number of scholarly (citable) items published in 2015 or 2016.
Editor-in-Chief of CLAE Shehzad Naroo, a Reader at Aston University, said: “When all ophthalmic journals are grouped together there are around 60 journals that currently hold an Impact Factor. These journals represent the ophthalmic sub speciality of medicine and fields allied to medicine.”
“CLAE is a sub-speciality within this sub-speciality since we do not accept all ophthalmic papers. We limit our submissions to papers related to contact lenses or anterior eye topics that are relevant to contact lens work.“
“Therefore, for CLAE to be classed in the middle of this group of journals and to be consistent in its placing is a testament to the journal. CLAE is above many ophthalmic journals that accept all ophthalmic papers so we are clearly punching well above our weight but more importantly we seem to be consistently doing well in the ranking of journals according to impact factors.
“Researchers have a wide range of choice of peer reviewed journals to choose from but if they want to get their work to be published in the best contact lens journal in the world then they have to look at submitting to CLAE.”
CLAE is a research-based journal covering all aspects of contact lens theory and practice, including original articles on invention and innovations, as well as the regular features of clinical trials, novel case reports, literary reviews and editorials, .
It is available to all BCLA members, as well a smartphone app allowing all resources to be downloaded into the palm of your hand. To access the journal, log into your BCLA account and access here.
For more information visit https://www.contactlensjournal.com/
Notes to editors
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