TY - JOUR T1 - Getting the Message Out JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 596 LP - 596 DO - 10.3399/bjgp16X687997 VL - 66 IS - 653 AU - Roger Jones Y1 - 2016/12/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/66/653/596.abstract N2 - The impact factor of a journal is an indication of its stature and ‘reach’, and a measure of the citation of its original articles by other peer-reviewed publications. The BJGP’s impact factor is the second highest of all primary healthcare journals. Our total citations exceed that of the highest-ranked journal, but because we publish more original research, the impact factor of the Annals of Internal Medicine, published in the US, is higher than ours. The number of citations of our papers in other journals is, however, dwarfed by the numbers of visitors to our website, the majority of whom click through to read articles, and download them, in their hundreds of thousands. Submission numbers are steadily rising, and because we are unable to accept many of the high-quality articles that … ER -