The driving forces behind the impressive progression of the journal of cell communication and signaling (JCCS)

Abstract

The recent increase of the Journal of Cell Signaling and Communication' 2020 Impact Factor to 5.782, and its growing audience in the scientific community, provides an opportunity to step back and look at different aspects of this indicator's value. The take home message is that the top-ten major contributions to the 2020 ranking originated from North America and Europe followed by India with a high percentage of CCN-related publications and an excellent proportion of Editorial Board members' contributions to the Top10 best citations for the 2018-2019 period.

Another Step Forward to the understanding of Biological Signaling Networks

“…The present accomplishments of JCCS are quite satisfactory. Aside from the IF consolidation to 5.908 (based on 2021’ citations of manuscripts published in 2020 and 2019), I believe, as I previously strongly advocated (B. Perbal 2021), that the large increase in JCCS readership is a strong unbiased sign of the interest that our publications trigger and of our scientific recognition within the scientific community. Indeed, the values communicated by our publisher indicated a 50% increase in the number of downloads during 2021.…”

“…However, we must consider these values with circumspection and humbleness (Perbal 2021) and put all our efforts towards reaching more layers of the scientific community dealing with biological communication and signaling.…”