ing, indexing and impact factorThe development of a journal is closely dependent on its visibility. Hence, abstracting and indexing agencies have an important role in this regard. International Journal of Diabetes in Developing Countries found its way in a large number of these agencies in the year 2006 onwards, during its publication by Medknow. This continues to grow; currently most important agencies abstracting and indexing are: Science Citation Index Expanded Global Health CAB International Academic Search CAB Abstracts Health Reference Center Academic IBIDS SCOPUS Google Scholar EBSCO Current Abstracts, Expanded Academic Index Copernicus Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition OCLC SCImago Summon by Serial Solutions The impact factor of the journal (Fig. 1) is 0.569. It started rising in the year 2009 and has marginally increased in the year 2011.Fig. 1Impact Factor TrendFull size image It is expected to grow rapidly in the next few years.
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Hemraj Chandalia (2013) studied this question.