Open access publisher BioMed Central, US, has announced that it has received confirmation from Thomson Reuters of official 2007 Impact Factors for Biology Direct (3.29) and Algorithms for Molecular Biology (1.63).
Impact Factors for these two journals, both of which focus on aspects of computational biology, were expected in June 2008, when the 2007 edition of the Journal Citation Report was released. However, technical issues delayed the calculation of Impact Factors for these particular journals. Impact factors are a metric that reflect the frequency that peer-reviewed journals are cited by researchers, making them one tool for evaluating a journal's quality.
An open access, peer-reviewed online journal Biology Direct seeks to provide authors and readers with an alternative to the traditional model of peer review. This includes making the author responsible for obtaining reviewers' reports via the journal's Editorial Board; making the peer review process open rather than anonymous; and making the reviewers' reports public, thus increasing the responsibility of the referees and eliminating sources of abuse in the refereeing process.
Algorithms for Molecular Biology covers all aspects of algorithms and software tools for molecular biology and genomics. The journal publishes research articles; review articles; editorials; book reports; commentaries; debate articles; meeting reports; short reports; as well as software articles.
