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Aims and scope
Published by MedKnow from 2024.
Hearing, Balance and Communication provides an international scientific and clinical forum for professionals to present research developments and novel clinical data in the rapidly expanding and inter-related fields of hearing, balance and communication medicine. The journal has a particular emphasis on medical, therapeutic and rehabilitative topics.
Two issues per volume are dedicated to specific subjects of topical clinical or scientific relevance. In addition, regular issues will contain original research papers, basic science reviews, clinical reviews of conditions and treatment and an editorial. Moreover, short communications will include radiological and clinical cases together with historical, technical and pathological notes, book reviews and letters to the editor. The primary aim of the journal will be to raise standards of care for patients with hearing, balance and communication disorders.
The journal is the official journal for the International Association of Physicians in Audiology (IAPA) including the British Association of Audiovestibular Physicians (BAAP), the Chinese Association of Audiovestibular Physicians, the Danish Medical Audiological Society (DMAS) and the Egyptian Audio Vestibular Medicine Associaiton (EAVMA) as well as the Italian society, Societá Italiana di Audiologia e Foniatria (SIAF).
Journal metrics
Usage
- 21K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 0.7 (2022) Impact Factor
- 0.7 (2022) 5 year IF
- 1.1 (2022) CiteScore (Scopus)
- 0.354 (2022) SNIP
- 0.265 (2022) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 77 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 110 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 11 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 55% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
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We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
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Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Abstracting and indexing
Hearing, Balance and Communication is indexed/tracked/covered by the following services:
EMBASE (Elsevier)EMCare (Elsevier)
Emerging Sources Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics)
Pubmed (NLM)
PubMed Central Selective Deposit Medicing & Health (NLM)
Scopus (Elsevier)
4 issues per year
Currently known as:
- Hearing, Balance and Communication (2013 - current)
Formerly known as
- Audiological Medicine (2003 - 2012)
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