Impact factor for the CDSR
Impact factorThe 2017 Journal Impact Factor for the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews is 6.754, which describes the ratio of the number of reviews published during 2015 and 2016 (1,764) to the number of citations these reviews received in 2017 (11,914).Looking at the Cochrane Airways reviews alone, we would have a higher theoretical impact factor of 8.500 (54 publications cited 459 times). This reflects the importance of the topics that we, as authors and editors, chose to publish and the high quality of the reviews.