Every summer brings a moment of trepidation when Clarivate release the latest Journal Impact Factors (JIFs), the most notorious ‘scientometric’ proxy for the importance or influence of scientific publications. Last year Brain saw a substantial increase from 10.848 to 11.814. This year, the JIF (calculated for citations in 2019) has ‘relaxed’ to 11.337, but there is a silver lining: the 5-year JIF for 2019 has reached an all-time high of 11.931. This represents the average number of times that articles published in Brain between 2014 and 2018 were cited in 2019. Needless to say, the 5-year JIF is only metric that counts, for now. Despite the shortcomings of the JIF, 5-year JIF, or numerous other metrics, authors contemplating where to submit their work should be encouraged by the objective evidence that Brain publishes work of lasting importance across the breadth of translational neuroscience.

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每年夏天，当Clarivate发布最新的期刊影响因子（JIF）时，都会感到不安，这是科学出版物的重要性或影响力中最臭名昭著的“科学计量”指标。去年Brain的收入从10.848大幅增加到11.814。今年，JIF（根据2019年的引用量计算）已``放松''至11.337，但有一线希望：2019年的5年JIF已达到历史最高点11.931。这代表文章在Brain中发表的平均次数从2014年到2018年之间的时间在2019年被引用。不用说，就目前而言，五年JIF仅是重要的指标。尽管JIF，5年JIF或其他许多度量标准都有缺点，但考虑到Brain在整个翻译神经科学领域发表具有永久重要性的工作的客观证据，应该鼓励那些打算在哪里提交论文的作者。