Cell Press, an imprint of STM publisher Elsevier, has announced that in the year since their 2008 preliminary ranking, Cell Press journals Cell Stem Cell and Cell Host and Microbe saw their Impact Factors surge, according to new data released in the 2009 Journal Citation Reports published by Thomson Reuters.
In the recently released report, Cell Stem Cell's rating rose to 23.563 - a growth of 40 percent from the journal's previous score. Cell Host and Microbe ranks 13.021 - boasting an increase of 75 percent from the journal's 2008 Impact Factor. Cell, the flagship journal of Cell Press, remains the number one research journal in the Cell Biology and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology subject categories, with an Impact Factor of 31.152.
The ranking also reveal that Cancer Cell continues to grow with a 2009 rating of 25.288. Molecular Cell saw a 13 percent increase to 14.608, and The American Journal of Human Genetics, a Society journal within the Cell Press publishing portfolio, saw its Impact Factor jump 21 percent in 2009 to 12.303.
The Impact Factor is a measure of the frequency with which the average article in a journal has been cited in a particular year. The Impact Factor helps to evaluate a journal's relative importance, especially when compared with others in the same field.
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