Comparison of journal cumulative impact factor and annual impact factor in the evaluation of science journals

Lan Shen; Xue-Li Liu; Lan Shen; Xue-Li Liu

doi:10.48130/PR-2022-0004

Journal name	JCR abbreviation	2020 JIF	5 Year JIF
American Journal of Ophthalmology	Am J Ophthalmol	5.258	5.729
Cornea	Cornea	2.651	2.774
Current Opinion in Ophthalmology	Curr Opin Ophthalmol	3.761	3.700
Cutaneous and Ocular Toxicology	Cutan Ocul Toxicol	1.820	1.619
Experimental eye Research	Exp Eye Res	3.467	3.811
Graefes Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology	Graef Arch Clin Exp	3.117	2.970
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science	Invest Ophth Vis Sci	4.799	4.847
JAMA Ophthalmology	JAMA Ophthalmol	7.389	7.977
Journal of AAPOS	J AAPOS	1.220	1.519
Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery	J Cataract Refr Surg	3.351	3.595
Journal of Glaucoma	J Glaucoma	2.503	2.277
Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology	J Neuro-Ophthalmol	3.042	2.893
Journal of Ocular Pharmacology and Therapeutics	J Ocul Pharmacol Th	2.671	2.397
Journal of Pediatric Ophthalmology & Strabismus	J Pediat Ophth Strab	1.402	1.404
Journal of Refractive Surgery	J Refract Surg	3.573	3.885
Journal of Vision	J Vision	2.154	2.519
Molecular Vision	Mol Vis	2.367	3.037
Ocular Surface	Ocul Surf	5.033	10.030
Ophthalmic Genetics	Ophthalmic Genet	1.803	1.815
Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery	Ophthal Plast Recons	1.746	1.623
Ophthalmology	Ophthalmology	12.079	11.015
Optometry and Vision Science	Optometry Vision Sci	1.973	2.217
Retina-the Journal of Retinal and Vitreous Diseases	Retina-J Ret Vit Dis	4.256	4.742
Survey of Ophthalmology	Surv Ophthalmol	6.048	5.703
Visual Neuroscience	Visual Neurosci	3.241	2.869

Table 1.

The general metric information of the collected journals in this study.

Journal titles^a	Peer review score	1-year AIF^b	2-year AIF^b	3-year AIF^b	4-year AIF^b	5-year AIF^b	6-year AIF^b	7-year AIF^b	8-year AIF^b	9-year AIF^b	10-year AIF^b
Invest Ophth Vis Sci	825.4	2.857	3.289	3.538	3.658	3.670	3.765	3.736	3.666	3.625	3.580
Am J Ophthalmol	740.7	4.269	4.773	4.721	4.649	4.667	4.583	4.489	4.509	4.480	4.268
Ophthalmology	723.0	6.655	7.273	7.938	7.669	7.596	7.484	7.254	7.001	6.817	6.608
JAMA Ophthalmol/Arch Ophthalmology	636.2	5.474	6.431	5.946	5.705	5.536	5.293	5.000	4.927	4.705	4.510
Exp Eye Res	517.0	2.626	3.085	3.306	3.384	3.296	3.247	3.208	3.165	3.074	3.007
Surv Ophthalmol	476.6	3.322	3.664	3.620	4.181	4.448	4.405	4.379	4.388	4.259	4.317
Graef Arch Clin Exp	456.3	1.964	2.188	2.265	2.254	2.236	2.198	2.151	2.139	2.092	2.027
Cornea	431.4	1.927	2.446	2.435	2.412	2.442	2.373	2.295	2.232	2.187	2.154
Retina-J Ret Vit Dis	421.3	2.354	3.799	3.559	3.491	3.381	3.344	3.242	3.112	3.036	2.942
Curr Opin Ophthalmol	418.2	1.768	2.587	2.804	2.932	2.918	2.897	2.896	2.840	2.780	2.732
J Cataract Refr Surg	410.2	2.093	2.730	2.968	3.119	3.099	3.135	3.018	2.976	2.880	2.770
J Glaucoma	350.8	1.505	1.673	1.737	1.750	1.874	1.881	1.846	1.851	1.888	1.853
Mol Vis	350.8	1.826	2.136	2.249	2.327	2.316	2.308	2.284	2.257	2.214	2.145
J Neuro-Ophthalmol	325.5	1.597	2.030	1.985	2.145	2.218	2.173	2.064	1.989	1.939	1.921
J Vision	316.5	1.353	1.738	2.010	2.123	2.119	2.246	2.283	2.401	2.431	2.461
Visual Neurosci	292.4	1.235	1.732	1.811	1.990	2.008	2.040	2.005	2.008	1.805	1.734
J AAPOS	275.6	0.620	0.923	0.983	1.036	1.123	1.103	1.1	1.098	1.116	1.098
J Pediat Ophth Strab	266.0	0.563	0.809	0.876	0.926	0.890	0.845	0.795	0.763	0.750	0.766
Optometry Vision Sci	251.6	1.128	1.476	1.611	1.781	1.858	1.823	1.869	1.854	1.845	1.864
J Ocul Pharmacol Th	248.5	1.800	1.893	1.964	2.041	1.961	1.875	1.843	1.820	1.765	1.704
J Refract Surg	237.4	2.374	2.693	3.357	3.295	3.376	3.209	3.082	2.991	2.837	2.650
Ophthal Plast Recons	210.7	0.811	1.118	1.141	1.103	1.095	1.079	1.052	1.028	1.009	0.981
Ocul Surf	194.8	5.073	5.500	5.773	5.773	5.713	5.622	5.58	5.616	5.457	7.389
Ophthalmic Genet	190.9	1.127	1.310	1.352	1.298	1.316	1.282	1.218	1.251	1.225	1.169
Cutan Ocul Toxicol	137.5	0.723	0.746	0.995	0.942	0.923	0.905	0.898	0.911	0.895	0.901
Meidan	350.8	1.826	2.188	2.265	2.327	2.316	2.308	2.284	2.257	2.214	2.154
^aJournals indicated by their abbreviations were arranged according to the alphabetical order as in Table 2 ^b AIF: annual impact factor

Table 2.

List of U.S. ophthalmologic journals with peer review score and AIFs by time window.

Parameter	1-year AIF^c	2-year AIF^c	3-year AIF^c	4-year AIF^c	5-year AIF^c	6-year AIF^c	7-year AIF^c	8-year AIF^c	9-year AIF^c	10-year AIF^c
Peer review score	0.669^a	0.691^a	0.665^a	0.667^a	0.666^a	0.677^a	0.673^a	0.664^a	0.679^a	0.667^a
	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b
1-year AIF^c		0.976^a	0.978^a	0.977^a	0.973^a	0.965^a	0.958^a	0.948^a	0.952^a	0.942^a
		0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b
2-year AIF^c			0.992^a	0.993^a	0.990^a	0.985^a	0.981^a	0.968^a	0.970^a	0.967^a
			0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b
3-year AIF^c				0.995^a	0.994^a	0.991^a	0.988^a	0.979^a	0.978^a	0.974^a
				0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b
4-year AIF^c					0.997^a	0.993^a	0.992^a	0.983^a	0.982^a	0.980^a
					0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b
5-year AIF^c						0.996^a	0.994^a	0.985^a	0.982^a	0.978^a
						0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b
6-year AIF^c							0.998^a	0.993^a	0.992^a	0.988^a
							0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b
7-year AIF^c								0.995^a	0.992^a	0.991^a
								0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b
8-year AIF^c									0.994^a	0.991^a
									0.000^b	0.000^b
9-year AIF^c										0.996^a
										0.000^b
^a correlation coefficient (r) ^b P value ^c AIF: annual impact factor

Table 3.

Spearman rank correlation between peer review scores and the AIFs.

Journal titles^a	Peer review score	1-year CIF^b	2-year CIF^b	3-year CIF^b	4-year CIF^b	5-year CIF^b	6-year CIF^b	7-year CIF^b	8-year CIF^b	9-year CIF^b	10-year CIF^b
Invest Ophth Vis Sci	825.4	3.370	5.315	7.502	9.748	11.852	14.547	16.172	17.505	18.947	20.420
Am J Ophthalmol	740.7	5.410	8.307	10.527	12.500	14.718	16.424	18.173	21.222	23.920	25.823
Ophthalmology	723.0	8.396	12.221	17.524	20.739	24.556	27.843	29.989	32.377	34.881	36.988
JAMA Ophthalmol/Arch Ophthalmology	636.2	7.342	11.260	13.060	14.837	17.142	19.384	20.901	23.530	25.150	26.818
Exp Eye Res	517.0	3.546	5.121	6.964	8.688	9.721	10.993	12.729	14.792	15.736	17.067
Surv Ophthalmol	476.6	4.525	6.082	7.392	10.398	13.242	14.512	16.412	18.913	21.165	23.918
Graef Arch Clin Exp	456.3	2.634	3.675	4.873	6.129	7.032	8.067	8.932	10.067	11.235	12.139
Cornea	431.4	2.385	3.797	4.660	5.939	7.158	8.155	8.898	9.761	10.818	12.008
Retina-J Ret Vit Dis	421.3	2.997	6.351	7.469	8.982	10.430	12.285	13.429	14.297	15.580	16.523
Curr Opin Ophthalmol	418.2	2.159	4.263	6.127	8.114	9.549	11.256	12.724	14.084	15.372	17.066
J Cataract Refr Surg	410.2	2.344	4.428	6.204	8.238	9.804	11.793	13.061	14.762	16.305	17.690
J Glaucoma	350.8	1.952	2.706	3.578	4.431	5.583	6.275	6.962	8.077	9.452	10.431
Mol Vis	350.8	2.182	3.178	4.554	6.527	8.143	9.812	11.137	12.299	13.637	14.495
J Neuro-Ophthalmol	325.5	2.164	3.644	4.347	5.957	6.990	8.041	8.378	8.844	9.187	9.760
J Vision	316.5	1.736	2.982	4.232	5.407	6.136	7.656	9.284	11.443	12.681	13.574
Visual Neurosci	292.4	1.412	2.390	4.676	5.748	6.879	8.203	8.674	10.658	11.399	12.212
J AAPOS	275.6	0.791	1.532	2.144	2.862	3.668	4.263	4.899	5.578	6.336	6.809
J Pediat Ophth Strab	266.0	0.646	1.330	1.853	2.505	2.898	3.036	3.351	3.585	3.939	4.400
Optometry Vision Sci	251.6	1.689	2.589	3.500	4.604	5.726	6.408	7.339	8.356	9.179	10.147
J Ocul Pharmacol Th	248.5	2.024	2.843	3.900	5.376	6.014	6.654	7.456	8.291	8.706	9.228
J Refract Surg	237.4	2.809	4.474	7.559	9.093	11.218	12.410	13.164	14.710	15.789	16.340
Ophthal Plast Recons	210.7	1.126	2.012	2.504	3.030	3.670	4.188	4.453	4.846	5.260	5.670
Ocul Surf	194.8	6.317	8.136	10.239	11.982	13.512	14.608	16.134	18.087	18.780	28.918
Ophthalmic Genet	190.9	1.352	2.171	2.636	3.048	3.771	4.282	4.723	5.245	5.961	6.333
Cutan Ocul Toxicol	137.5	1.000	1.291	2.461	2.841	3.255	3.562	3.984	4.284	4.505	4.828
Median	350.8	2.182	3.675	4.676	6.129	7.158	8.203	9.284	11.443	12.681	13.574
^a Journals indicated by their abbreviations were arranged according to the alphabetical order as in Table 4. ^b CIF: cumulative impact factor

Table 4.

List of U.S. ophthalmologic journals with peer review score and CIF by time window.

Parameters	1-year CIF^c	2-year CIF^c	3-year CIF^c	4-year CIF^c	5-year CIF^c	6-year CIF^c	7-year CIF^c	8-year CIF^c	9-year CIF^c	10-year CIF^c
Peer review score	0.688^a	0.703^a	0.646^a	0.671^a	0.670^a	0.659^a	0.706^a	0.694^a	0.700^a	0.671^a
	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b
1-year CIF^c		0.976^a	0.947^a	0.964^a	0.961^a	0.932^a	0.936^a	0.925^a	0.913^a	0.907^a
		0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b
2-year CIF^c			0.964^a	0.978^a	0.978^a	0.958^a	0.966^a	0.948^a	0.940^a	0.935^a
			0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b
3-year CIF^c				0.984^a	0.983^a	0.984^a	0.967^a	0.958^a	0.957^a	0.944^a
				0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b
4-year CIF^c					0.997^a	0.989^a	0.984^a	0.977^a	0.969^a	0.958^a
					0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b
5-year CIF^c						0.993^a	0.985^a	0.976^a	0.972^a	0.960^a
						0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b
6-year CIF^c							0.984^a	0.978^a	0.976^a	0.966^a
							0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b
7-year CIF^c								0.988^a	0.987^a	0.972^a
								0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b
8-year CIF^c									0.992^a	0.986^a
									0.000^b	0.000^b
9-year CIF^c										0.986^a
										0.000^b
^a correlation coefficient (r) ^b P value ^cCIF: cumulative impact factor

Table 5.

Spearman rank correlation between peer review score and the CIF.

CIF^a	Am J Ophthalmol	Surv Ophthalmol	Ophthalmology	Retina-J Ret Vit Dis
11-year CIF	26.817	26.198	38.539	17.949
12-year CIF	27.803	28.465	39.749	18.170
13-year CIF	28.549	30.925	40.978	18.195
14-year CIF	29.403	33.789	42.227	18.308
15-year CIF	29.985	35.177	42.959	18.225
16-year CIF	30.350	37.174	43.893	18.209
17-year CIF	30.876	40.309	44.553	18.260
18-year CIF	31.110	41.434	45.327	18.212
19-year CIF	31.414	43.618	46.098	18.162
20-year CIF	31.586	43.424	46.297	18.074
30-year CIF	35.232	47.624	48.326	18.658
31-year CIF	35.431	47.562	48.153	18.627
32-year CIF	35.519	47.332	48.108	18.645
33-year CIF	35.716	47.798	48.259	18.670
34-year CIF	35.965	47.470	48.164	18.648
35-year CIF	36.308	47.495	48.225	18.693
36-year CIF	36.202	47.313	47.877	N/A
37-year CIF	36.233	46.845	47.702	N/A
38-year CIF	36.084	46.718	47.111	N/A
39-year CIF	36.056	46.493	46.890	N/A
40-year CIF	35.926	46.356	N/A	N/A
50-year CIF	34.289	N/A	N/A	N/A
60-year CIF	31.479	N/A	N/A	N/A
61-year CIF	31.289	N/A	N/A	N/A
62-year CIF	31.126	N/A	N/A	N/A
70-year CIF	29.942	N/A	N/A	N/A
71-year CIF	29.818	N/A	N/A	N/A
72-year CIF	29.715	N/A	N/A	N/A
^a CIF: cumulative impact factor

Table 6.

CIFs of four journals with longer time windows.