JABB BECOMES JOURNAL OF APPLIED BIOMATERIALS & FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS!

This decision has a deep scientific reason and makes more explicit one of the journal’s main aim: to represent a multidisciplinary tool to communicate and share the most recent scientific information and knowledge in the field of Materials for Biomedical applications. Accordingly, the journal has to take into deep consideration the most recent developments in the Biomaterial research field, that is the design of "Functional Materials" finely tuned for new high-impact applications in Biomedicine. In this scenario, the new name, combined with the recognized “applicative” focus, will strengthen its positioning as a major discussion tool among all the different research areas involved in the Biomaterials field. 
Despite this slight change, the Journal of Applied Biomaterials & Functional Materials will continue to be available on Pubmed/MEDLINE as well as in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR), released every year by Thomson Reuters; therefore J Appl Biomater Function Mater will continue to have its Impact Factor with complete citations and metrics. 

Impact Factor status across the 2012-2015 time-frame (using “Journal A” and “Journal B” to respectively denote JABB and the Journal of Applied Biomaterials & Functional Materials): In 2011, Journal A publishes its last issue. The first issue in 2012 is the newly titled “Journal B”. When the year 2011 Journal Citation Reports is published (in June of 2012) only Journal A will be listed, since there were neither articles nor citations for Journal B in the year before its release.
All JCR data will be presented for Journal A: Total Citations, Journal Impact Factor, Immediacy Index, source item counts, cited and citing journal data, and cited and citing half-life calculations.
When the year 2012 Journal Citation Reports is published (in June of 2013) Journal A will have a listing containing Total Citations and an Impact Factor, based on citations in 2012 to content in 2010 and 2011.  It will also have cited journal data and a cited half-life, but no other metrics will be applicable.  Journal B will have a listing containing Total Citations, Immediacy Index (based on citations in 2012 to articles published in 2012) and source item counts. It will also have citing journal data and a citing half-life. When the year 2013 JCR is published (in June of 2014) Journal A will be listed with total Citations and an Impact Factor (based on Citations in 2013 to articles published in 2011 only). It also have cited journal data and a cited half-life, but no other metrics. Journal B will have a listing containing all citation data and metrics - however, the Impact Factor will be based on citations in 2013 to items published in 2012 only. The Impact Factor for Journal A in the 2013 JCR may be deceptively high - since it will be based on a section of the citation time-course that is higher, or even peaked. The Impact Factor for Journal B, on the other hand, may be deceptively low - since it will be based on citations to quite recent articles, before most journals and subjects had fully developed citations. 
Finally - in the year 2014 JCR (published in June of 2015) only the new journal title – Journal B – will be listed, with complete citation data and metrics. All further years, of course, will show only the new title.