Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has announced a continued increase in the proportion of its journal titles indexed in the 2014 release of Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports® (JCR). A total of 1,202 Wiley titles (approximately 70%) were indexed, up from 1,193 in the 2012 JCR, and including 13 titles which have been indexed for the first time.
Wiley journals were indexed in 217 of 232 JCR subject categories. Of these, 27 Wiley journals achieved a top category rank, up from 25 in 2012 while 193 titles are placed within the top 10 percent of their subject category.
Wiley's portfolio continues to be strong across both science and social sciences with Wiley journals accounting for the largest share of journals, citations and articles across 17 categories. In the Social Science JCR Wiley journals accounted for the second largest proportion of journals, citations and articles overall.
The Advanced Materials portfolio continues its strong performance. Advanced Healthcare Materials received its first Impact Factor of 4.880 this year while Advanced Energy Materials recorded stellar growth to 14.385 (+43.23%). Advanced Materials maintained its outstanding position with a new Impact Factor of 15.409 (up from 14.829), following a meteoric rise in recent years and is furthermore listed in six different ISI categories. Advanced Functional Materials achieved its highest ever Impact Factor of 10.439.
CA – A Cancer Journal for Clinicians maintains the highest Impact Factor in the JCR. Published on behalf of The American Cancer Society, this journal was the first to achieve an Impact Factor over 100 and has this year broken its own record with a score of 162.500.
Human Resource Management Journal took the first place ranking in Industrial Relations & Labor increasing by 56% from 1.558 to 2.423 while Journal of Finance retains the number one position in Business and Finance, jumping from 4.333 to 6.033.
Water Resources Research increased by 18 percent taking the number one spot in Limnology (3.709) while Paleoceanography (3.918) increased by 19 percent retaining the number one position in Paleontology. Both journals are published by Wiley on behalf of the American Geophysical Union.
82 percent of the journals published out of the Asia-Pacific offices now have an Impact Factor, including the following top ten ranked journals: International Journals of Mental Health Nursing, Drug and Alcohol Review, Australian Grape and Wine Research and Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics. International Review of Finance also received its first Impact Factor in 2013.
Impact factors are a metric that reflect the frequency that peer-reviewed journals are cited by researchers, and are often used as a tool for evaluating a journal's quality.
