Growing impact of Sleep Medicine Reviews keeps readers awake

Department news | December 31, 2018


Since the founding of Sleep Medicine Reviews in 1997 by Michael V. Vitiello, PhD, and Jean Krieger, MD, PhD, the review-only journal’s impact on the field has continued to grow on a number of measures, with data from 2017 hitting multiple new highs. Geared toward practitioners of sleep medicine and academic sleep and circadian rhythm researchers, SMR enjoys a large and growing world-wide readership, with readers on every continent but Antarctica who benefit from editorials and reviews on everything from anesthesia and circadian rhythms to sleep and climate change. SMR achieved its highest Impact Factor ever for 2017 – 10.602 – from the Thompson Reuters Science Citation Index (SCI) ranking it 7th out of the 261 journals in the SCI Clinical Neurology category and 14th out of the 261 journals in the SCI Neurosciences category. SMR also took a huge jump in the measure of how rapidly published articles are cited, going from 12th to 6th in Neurosciences and 16th to 8th in Clinical Neurology from 2016 to 2017. Another publication metric, CiteScore, ranks SMR 1st of 132 journals in the Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine category and 4th of 336 journals in the Clinical Neurology category. These data clearly demonstrate that SMR continues to be very well regarded and publishes reviews that are considered valuable, timely and that are highly and rapidly citable. Editor-in-chief Dr. Vitiello welcomes suggestions for review topics as well as comments and opinions on anything that appears in the Journal (vitiello@uw.edu). Definitely a publication to keep an eye on!