IIW History 1990-2015

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LINKING PEOPLE, JOINING NATIONS
For its debut through Springer in 2013, the journal was retitled Welding in the World:
The International Journal of Materials Joining. This was the same year in which 50 years
of publication of WiW was celebrated by IIW. During the period 2013/14 the journal
made a profit of just over EUR 20 000 for each of those years, which was considered to be
acceptable and there were expectations that this should improve as exposure of the journal
became more widespread in the scientific community.
In terms of its impact, as measured through the SCI, WiW had clearly
made great strides towards becoming one of the world’s leading scientific
journals for welding, joining and related technologies. As a measure of
its success, when the journal was first assessed via the SCI in 2011, the
impact factor (IF) was 0.302. By the end of 2015 the IF had
risen to 0.861. This was a remarkable achievement in such
a short space of time, since most journals take several
years to establish a meaningful IF of that level.21 The
chart above demonstrates quite clearly the increasing
trend of growth in the quality of WiW in the period from
2011 up to 2015. In terms of its popularity, almost 45 000
downloads of papers took place in 2015 compared
with approximately 38 000 in 2014.
Prof. Dr-Ing. IanM. Richardson (The Netherlands) then
replaced the retiring de Meester on the Editorial Board and
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Impact Factor
Impact Factor, number of citations and
number of source items by year
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Successful progress of Welding in the World
Ian Richardson