Making an impact: Journal of Foot and Ankle Research.

The article discusses the role of impact factor in journal rankings. This helps publishers, researchers, clinicians resolve their content quality issues. The impact factor is a measure to understand a journal's reputation and how many times a journal has been reviewed by other researchers. The article also suggests that despite its limitations such as quality of the content and manipulation of content by editors, impact factor is a valid indicator of quality for selection of journals.