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LSUHealthNO-Founded Men’s Health Journal Now Ranked in Top 50

The impact factor of the American Journal of Men’s Health, housed in the LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing, reveals that it has become an influential source of information nationally and internationally about men’s health. In 2016, the journal ranked #38 in the Public, Environmental & Occupational Health category of the Journal Citation Reports annual Web of Science Data. That is a 25% increase from 2015 and a 138% increase over the past five years. An impact factor is a measure of how often an average paper published in a journal has been cited in a particular year. The impact factor reflects the importance of a journal – the higher the ranking, the more influential the journal. American Journal of Men’s Health is ranked within the top 50 publications in its category.