Annals of Palliative Medicine earns its first official impact factor

On June 20, 2019, we learned that Annals of Palliative Medicine has obtained its first official impact factor (IF) for the 2018 citation year. The IF, as published in the annual Journal Citation Reports (JCR), is 1.262. This news is on the heels of the January 2019 announcement from Clarivate Analytics that Annals of Palliative Medicine met the high bar for inclusion and became indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) (1).