IJS Impact Factor Jumps to 2.871 in Only Five Years!

Abstract

World Stroke Day is here again! In a brief period of time it has become one of the most globally successful campaigns launched to reduce the burden of stroke. This year the World Stroke Organization is focussing on ‘One in 6’. One in 6 people will have a stroke in their life time; one stroke occurs every 6 seconds globally, and the burden of stroke may be reduced following six easy steps: 1. Learn the facts: recognize the first symptoms of stroke 2. Find out if you are at risk for high blood pressure, diabetes or high blood cholesterol 3. Adopt an energy-balanced lifestyle: be physically active and exercise regularly 4. Avoid obesity 5. Eat a healthy diet 6. Avoid smoking and keep away from smoke-friendly environments. If you smoke, seek help to stop NOW! This is an extremely persuasive campaign, which will continue for two years and will be adopted by stroke advocates around the world. These coordinated activities on a global scale are the best way to leverage influence with governments at all levels and educate the public. We look forward to your participation and know that many of you will be conducting your own activities regionally and may become eligible for the World Stroke Day award previously won by Sri Lanka. You may like to listen to Padma Gunaratne on our Podcast to hear how Sri Lanka handled World Stroke day in such an innovative way. You may also like to listen to the podcast interview with Peter Sandercock, which compliments his Leading Opinion ‘Where are we now with iv thrombolysis for acute ischaemic stroke?’ We have found podcasting to be an extremely useful adjunct to our media armamentarium and have become a very popular feature in a brief period of time. Indeed our Managing Editor Carmen Lahiff-Jenkins will be conducting a series of pre-meeting interviews prior to the World Stroke Congress, to be held in Seoul Korea 13–16 of October, and will be interested in capturing interviews and images from a number of you who are presenting information which is likely to be of interest to our global readership. This also means that many of you who are unable to attend the meeting will have the opportunity to access highlights from the congress via ‘IJS on the fly’ found on our IJS You Tube Channel. This World Stroke Day Edition contains, as usual and interesting array of articles ranging from ‘Age and gender variations in the management of ischaemic stroke in China’ through to a quite intriguing study from Korea using ‘Lenticulostriate Arteries in Chronic Stroke Patients Visualized by 7T MRA’. In July our impact factor was announced via Thompson Scientific to have jumped from 2 0 to 2 871 and now IJS has the most rapidly increasing impact factor of all stroke related journals. This should give continuing confidence to our authors, that their journal articles are going to be highly visibly and frequently cited. Much of what we have achieved in such a short time is due to the efforts of our Associate Editors Peter Rothwell, Andrei Alexandrov, and Conrado Estol, and our high quality Editorial Board, we thank them all and look forward to achieving even greater success during the forthcoming year. 3.500