Health Technology Assessment's influence confirmed by latest impact factors

News release from the National Coordinating Centre for Health Technology Assessment

27 June 2007

The influence and impact of Health Technology Assessment, the journal of the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) programme, has been confirmed in the latest published impact factors. The 2006 impact factor is 5.29, the first it has received, and ranks the journal in the top 10% of medical and health-related journals.

Impact factors are calculated annually by the Institute for Scientific Information® on the basis of how frequently research in peer-review journals is cited in a defined period. This figure provides an indication of how influential the journal is.

Professor Tom Walley, Director of the HTA programme and Editor-in-chief of the journal, said: “This is an excellent endorsement of the relevance and influence of the Health Technology Assessment journal. The HTA programme commissions research, and then publishes the results in order to answer questions that patients, the NHS, and policy-makers need the answers to. The publication of the impact factor confirms our journal is consistently delivering on this mission.”

The HTA programme, part of the National Institute for Health Research, has published 380 editions of Health Technology Assessment to date, covering primary, secondary and methodological research.

A definition of impact factors and how they are calculated is available from Thomson Scientific at http://scientific.thomson.com/free/essays/journalcitationreports/impactfactor/

Notes:

    1. Health Technology Assessment is ranked in the top 10% of medical and health-related journals on the basis of impact factors for 2006.
    2. The Institute for Scientific Information® is part of Thomson Scientific.

Notes for editors


  1. The HTA programme is a programme of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and produces high quality research information about the effectiveness, costs, and broader impact of health technologies for those who use, manage and provide care in the NHS. It is the largest of the NIHR programmes and publishes the results of its research in the Health Technology Assessment journal, with more than 400 issues published to date. The journal’s 2007 Impact Factor (3.87) ranked it in the top 10% of medical and health-related journals. All issues are available for download free of charge from the website, www.hta.ac.uk The HTA programme is coordinated by the National Coordinating Centre for Health Technology Assessment (NCCHTA), based at the University of Southampton.
  2. The National Institute for Health Research provides the framework through which the research staff and research infrastructure of the NHS in England is positioned, maintained and managed as a national research facility.  The NIHR provides the NHS with the support and infrastructure it needs to conduct first-class research funded by the Government and its partners alongside high-quality patient care, education and training.  Its aim is to support outstanding individuals (both leaders and collaborators), working in world class facilities (both NHS and university), conducting leading edge research focused on the needs of patients. www.nihr.ac.uk

Contact details

Naomi Stockley, Programme Manager (Communications)
Telephone: 02380 595 646, Email: ns5@soton.ac.uk

Helen Nikandrou, Assistant Programme Manager (Communications)
Telephone: 02380 595 584, Email: h.nikandrou@soton.ac.uk

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