On 11 July the (US) Institute of Navigation announces that its quarterly journal Navigation experienced significant growth in the Journal Impact Factor measurement tool.

The Journal of The ION, reflected in the latest Journal Impact Factor (JIF) report. The JIF of an academic journal is a measurement tool used to calculate the yearly average number of citations to recent articles published in a journal and is an indication of the relative importance of the journal within its field. It is generally recognized that journals with higher impact factors are deemed more important than those with lower ones due to its citation rate.

Navigation’s Journal Impact Factor is now 1.604, an increase from 0.979 last
year and 0.562 the year before. Total citations have increased by more than
270% over the past two years.