IIW History 1990-2015

Impact Factor, number of citations and number of source items by year

0.200 0.300 0.400 0.500 0.600 0.700 0.800 0.900 0.000 0.100

300

0.861

0.746

250

200

169

166

0.477

151

143

0.424

150

126

109

0.302

96

100

Impact Factor

64

52

50

29

Number of source items/ citations

20 11

20 12

20 13

20 14

20 15

0

Impact Factor

Number of Citations

Number of Source Items

Successful progress of Welding in the World

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

Ian Richardson

LINKING PEOPLE, JOINING NATIONS