Non-profit scientific publisher Institute of Physics (IOP) Publishing, UK, has announced that the 2010 Impact Factors, published by Thomson Reuters, show significant growth for many of its journals for the seventh consecutive year.
This year, 73 percent of the titles published by IOP have seen an increase in Impact Factor from last year. Journals published by IOP have had an average increase in Impact Factor of 7 percent, with 25 titles achieving an Impact Factor increase of over 10 percent. Additionally, 27 journals have Impact Factors above 2.000 and 14 journals have Impact Factors above 3.000.
There were high performances from individual journals including the Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter; Physics in Medicine and Biology; Journal of Instrumentation; Smart Materials and Structures; and Journal of Optics. A selection of the most-cited papers for these best-performing IOP journals has been made free to read online. Papers can be accessed through the journal homepages on iopscience.org/journals.
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