The 2015 “State of the Journal” report (original) (raw)

Abstract

With the inception of SoSyM in 2001, we will this year celebrate its 15th year anniversary! Over the past 14 volumes, SoSyM has published a total of 512 different articles and editorials (145 regular papers, 159 special section papers, 76 theme section papers, 45 editorials, 46 guest editorials, 34 expert voices, 1 industry voice, 4 discussion/overview papers, 2 errata). The journal is doing very well and recently received an Impact Factor of 1.408. In 2015, SoSyM published 79 articles and editorials (26 regular papers, 42 special section papers, 5 editorials, 6 guest editorials), which included 1580 pages (issues 1 and 2 were doubled in size to reduce the backlog of papers in the online pipeline). For the issues of 2016 Springer has increased again the number of pages per issue from 256 pages in 2015 to 294 pages so that we will publish at least 1176 pages this year. The number of paper downloads from the Springer SoSyM site continues to be higher than the first decade of publication.