Scientific Publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced that journal Nature's 2009 Impact Factor is its highest ever (34.480). The journal remains the number one weekly science journal for the third consecutive year, and is the 8th highest ranked of 7347 journals by Impact Factor in the 2009 Journal Citation Report (JCR), Science Edition. Nature is also the most highly cited journal in the JCR, with 483,039 citations in 2009.
NPG's flagship journal Nature leads a strong portfolio, with 15 journals ranking #1 in their JCR categories. Nature and the Nature research journals reject over 90 percent of submissions, filtering the most impactful science from the high numbers of submissions these journals receive.
This year Nature Geoscience achieved a first impact factor of 8.108, making it the number 1 journal in the Geosciences category. Thirteen of the Nature research journals saw their Impact Factors go up this year, including significant increases for Nature Biotechnology (29.495), Nature Genetics (34.284), Nature Materials (29.504), and Nature Nanotechnology (26.309).
NPG's academic and society journals also achieved great results this year. Highlights include Molecular Psychiatry, which now ranks 1/117 psychiatry journals with an improved Impact Factor of 15.049. Journal of Investigative Dermatology remains 1/48 among dermatology journals. Cell Research continues to improve its Impact Factor year on year, and with a 2009 Impact Factor of 8.151 is the highest ranked journal by Impact Factor in the Asia-Pacific region.
Search for more scientific books/journals
