STATEMENT The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition high impact The most highly rated peer-reviewed, primary Making A Difference. Findings published in AJCN research journal in the Thomson Reuters Journal regularly provide vital supporting evidence for of Citation Reports (JCR) nutrition and dietetics guidelines, reports, and recommendations issued category, The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition by governments, foundations, and professional (AJCN) publishes the latest research on topics in organizations. For example, information in nutrition, such as obesity, vitamins and minerals, AJCN underpins: nutrition and disease, and energy metabolism. n the new US Department of Agriculture’s Dietary The AJCN was selected by the Special Libraries Guidelines for Americans. Association (SLA) as one of the top 100 most n World Health Organization (WHO) influential journals in Biology and Medicine over recommendations in the areas of chronic the last 100 years—the only nutrition journal to be diseases, child health, HIV/AIDS, women’s so recognized. health, and more. Every year, the award- n UNICEF reports on global efforts to eliminate winning AJCN is at malnutrition and nutrient deficiencies. the top of important n Pan American Health Organization reports on rankings of journals pressing health issues. in the field, including n systematic reviews of healthcare and health those for best value, policy of The Cochrane Collaboration. most influence, and n position and consensus statements of highest Impact Factor professional and scientific societies such among primary research as the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics; journals. Articles NAASO, The Obesity Society, and the American published in AJCN are Diabetes Association. read by researchers, government leaders, and other decision makers in the public health industry and are used by health professionals around the world in the formulation of health policies, guidelines, and recommendations.

The best clinical research journal in the nutrition field. A clear leader in the field, AJCN simply provides the best, most reliable, most immediate clinical nutrition research available.

Most cited and most recommended. AJCN average, more than twice the influence of the stands as the second most frequently cited journal mean article in the JCR. in nutrition and dietetics: Immmediate. AJCN brings the best nutrition n One of 81 nutrition-related publications, AJCN research to print as quickly as possible—while alone garners 12% of all citations. In 2016, maintaining the quality readers expect. out of 477,000 total citations to journals in n AJCN articles are published online ahead of the nutrition and dietetics category, more than print as fully copyedited and composed PDFs 55,000 were citations to articles published in within 1 month of acceptance. AJCN—19,000 more citations than the next most-cited journal. n AJCN has the highest Immediacy Index of any primary nutrition research journal—1.340— n AJCN papers are regularly selected as “most indicating that articles published in AJCN, important” by the 5,000 senior scientists and on average, are accessed faster than articles leading experts of Faculty of 1000 (f1000.com) published in other journals. and are included in the monthly Food Nutrition Briefs from the International Life Sciences Authoritative. Manuscripts submitted to AJCN Institute (ILSI) North America. undergo rigorous and careful review to ensure the n Research published in AJCN is regularly used accuracy and importance of the findings reported— by media outlets, including the Washington each manuscript is reviewed by peers an average Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, of 5.5 times—(not including reviews provided by Miami Herald, Forbes.com, Today.com, editors)—before acceptance for publication. WebMD, Medline Plus, and many more. n A recent study in the American Journal of Influential. AJCN has the most impact, the most Preventive Medicine (November 2013) gave influence, and the highest immediacy rating of any AJCN top marks for sticking to the facts and primary nutrition research journal. not overstating research findings in abstracts. n AJCN has an overall Impact Factor of 6.926 Global impact and focus. The AJCN is a and a five-year Impact Factor of 7.506— true international journal, attracting manuscript making it the highest ranked, most cited primary submissions and publishing articles by authors research journal in the field of nutrition. AJCN’s around the world. Impact Factor places it in the top 4% of all n Approximately 70% of authors of submitted 11,365 journals indexed by Thomson Reuters. manuscripts and 60% of authors of published n With an h5-index of 97, AJCN is number 1 articles reside outside the United States. in Google Scholar’s ranking of the top 20 n Authors of research published in AJCN publications in nutrition (scholar.google.com). represent institutions in over 90 different n 0 AJCN has an Eigenfactor score of .06 —the countries throughout the world. This global 81 second highest among the nutrition journals reach and interest ensures that, regardless of analyzed by JCR. Eigenfactor is a measure the specific research setting, the most important of a journal’s importance, making AJCN one research findings are published in AJCN. of the most important nutrition journals in the scientific community according to this metric. n AJCN has an Article Influence factor of 2.464—also the highest for a primary research journal—which means that its articles have, on