Media Release
Contact: ION National Office, 1-703-366-2723

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
9:00 a.m., July 9, 2024

The Institute of Navigation announces that its open access peer-reviewed quarterly journal, NAVIGATION: Journal of the Institute of Navigation, has experienced growth in the publication’s Journal Impact Factor (JIF).

Manassas Virginia, July 9, 2024 - The Institute of Navigation (ION) is pleased to announce that NAVIGATION: Journal of the Institute of Navigation, has recorded growth in its Journal Impact Factor (JIF). The JIF, an index that calculates the yearly average number of citations to recent articles published in a journal, is considered a bellwether of the relative importance of a journal within its field. A journal with a higher impact factor generally is viewed as being more important than those with a lower impact factor due to its citation rate.

NAVIGATION’s JIF has now increased to 3.1. 

NAVIGATION’s JIF growth reflects the continued focus and leadership of the Journal’s Editor, Richard B. Langley, and the entire Editorial Board, which includes Penina Axelrad, Liang Chen, Paul Groves, André Hauschild, Christopher Hegarty, Li-Ta Hsu, Jiyun Lee, Sherman Lo, Gary McGraw, Michael Meurer, Andrew Neish, Santiago Perea, Boris Pervan, Jason Rife, Fabian Rothmaier, Andrey Soloviev, Clark Taylor, Todd Walter, Zhe Yang, Zheng Yao, Zhen Zhu, and the Journal’s Managing Editor, Lisa Beaty and Editorial Assistant, Jordan Gardner.

NAVIGATION is the leading peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing articles on all areas related to the science and art of positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT). It is indexed and abstracted in the Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database (ProQuest); COMPENDEX (Elsevier); Current Contents: Engineering, Computing & Technology (Clarivate Analytics); Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science Database (ProQuest); Electrical & Electronics Abstracts (IET); Google Scholar (Google); INSPEC (IET); Materials Science & Engineering Database (ProQuest); Natural Science Collection (ProQuest); Science Citation Index Expanded (Clarivate Analytics); SciTech Premium Collection (ProQuest); SCOPUS (Elsevier); Technology Collection (ProQuest); and Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics). NAVIGATION is published as an open access, peer-reviewed journal by ION, in partnership with Highwire.

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The Institute of Navigation is a not-for-profit professional organization advancing positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT). The Institute is a national organization whose membership spans worldwide. Additional information about the ION can be found at ion.org.