Primary Health Care Journals Impact Factor

Professor Chris van Weel, immediate past president of Wonca, reports that as of June 2011, Thomson Reuters ISI features the subject heading Primary Health Care. Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports offers a systematic, objective means to critically evaluate the world's leading journals, with quantifiable, statistical information based on citation data. The document attached includes the listing for the primary health care journals.

The impact factor (IF) is a measure reflecting the average number of citations to articles published in science and social science journals. It is frequently used as a measure for the relative importance of a journal within its field, with journals with higher impact factors deemed to be more important than those with lower ones.

Saha, S. Impact factor: a valid measure of journal quality? J Med Libr Assoc 91 (1) January 2003.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC141186/pdf/i0025-7338-091-01-0042.pdf

From the Primary Health Care Journals' listing, the ICGP library has access to 10 out of the 13 journals listed [all except 10. Primary Care, 12. Aten Prim and 13. Aust J Health]. Click here to see full listing of ICGP Journals. Contact the ICGP library if you are looking for articles from any of these journals.