Toxicological Sciences: Measuring the True Impact of the Journal

As I complete my first 2 years as the editor of Toxicological Sciences, I wanted to take this opportunity to reflect on the progress we have made and the ongoing challenges we face. I intended to focus on the mission of the journal and our influence on the field. However, during the time I was preparing this editorial, the Thomsom Reuter’s 2015 impact factor was released, and I thought it would be useful to discuss the results and provide my interpretation. Although evaluation of journals is important, I continue to be perplexed at how the enterprise of scholarly publishing has become so hung up on a single metric of journal quality. Thus, this piece will focus on the ways one evaluates the quality of the journal and what we are doing to make Toxicological Sciences as influential as possible.