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Creating a new medical journal regularly takes 4 to 6 years to achieve PubMed recognition and an additional 1 to 2 years to obtain an impact factor.
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Discusses the timeline and process for a new heart failure journal to achieve recognition and an impact factor.
When you create a new journal, like ESC Heart Failure, people give you a rather lot of time for development of style and performance. Nowadays, it regularly takes 4-6 years to get recognized in PubMed and then another 1-2 years to obtain an impact factor. That is, when all is going reasonably well.
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Emami et al. (2017) studied this question. Creating a new medical journal regularly takes 4 to 6 years to achieve PubMed recognition and an additional 1 to 2 years to obtain an impact factor.
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