CLAE rating rises for the fourth year in a row

The Contact Lens & Anterior Eye (CLAE) journal of the BCLA has seen its impact factor rating rise for the fourth successive year.

The rating rose to 1.865, up from 1.783 in 2016. It is calculated by adding the number of citations in 2017 to content from 2015-2016, and then dividing that by the number of items published between those years.

Shehzad Naroo, editor-in-chief of CLAE, said: ‘When all ophthalmic journals are grouped together there are around 60 journals that currently hold an Impact Factor. These journals represent the ophthalmic sub speciality of medicine and fields allied to medicine.’