On June 30, 2013, the newest issue of the International Journal of Internet Science appeared. In their editorial, editors Ulf-Dietrich Reips and Uwe Matzat present an updated calculation of the 2012 journal impact factor: it has risen to a minimum of 2.9 (ISI) and 6.1 (Google Scholar).

The current issue contains the following items:

Ulf-Dietrich Reips & Uwe Matzat:
Article Impact Means Journal Impact (Editorial)

Deen Freelon:
ReCal OIR: Ordinal, Interval, and Ratio Intercoder Reliability as a Web Service

Jorna Leenheer & Annette C. Scherpenzeel:
Does It Pay Off to Include Non-Internet Households in an Internet Panel?

Galit Nimrod:
Challenging the Internet Paradox: Online Depression Communities and Well-Being

Constantin M. Bosancianu, Steve Powell, & Esad Bratoviç:
Social Capital and Pro-Social Behavior Online and Offline

Please find the issue at
http://www.ijis.net/ijis8_1/ijis8_1_index.html

The three permanent Ikerbasque Research Professors affiliated with Universidad de Deusto met with Lehendakari Iñigo Urkullu during a government reception for Ikerbasque Research Professors and their families who moved to the Basque Country to help strengthen its science landscape.

Governor Iñigo Urkullu is also a former student of Universidad de Deusto.

A joint multi-national proposal involving our group, “A Research infrastructure for the Study of Archived Web materials”, has been put by EU Consultation on Research Infrastructures, Topics for Integrating Activities on the list of projects of “High potential” and also with “merit for future Horizon 2020 Research Infrastructure Actions”. We consider this to be a very qualified prequalification as the evaluation procedure has followed the rigorous standard FP7 evaluation procedure.

Find the evaluation outcome of this first step at the European Commission’s website: http://ec.europa.eu/research/infrastructures/index_en.cfm?pg=consultation (the project is classified in the Mathematics and ICT category as ‘ICT02’).

According to preliminary calculations based on citations listed by Google Scholar, the 2012 journal impact factor of the International Journal of Internet Science will be 5.8 or higher.

To calculate the 2012 impact factor, number of articles published in the two previous years is divided by the number of cites in 2012 to items published in 2011 (4) and 2010 (36). This calculation of Cites to recent items / Number of recent articles arrives at 40 / 7 = 5.8 .

As usual, the real 2012 journal impact will be higher, as some 2012 publications have not yet appeared in the databases.