IOP Publishing, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Institute of Physics, has announced that the 2012 Impact Factors, published by Thomson Reuters, show growth for many of its journals for the ninth consecutive year.
This year, 33 of the titles published by IOP have seen an increase in citations from last year. Additionally, 26 titles have had an increase of over 5 percent and 53 percent of IOP's journals have Impact Factors above 2.000.
There were high performances from individual journals. The Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics increased by 27 percent to 5.326. Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics increased by 8 percent to 2.031. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics increased by 24 percent to 2.142. Science and Technology of Advanced Materials, published in partnership with the National Institute of Materials Science, increased by 7 percent to 3.752. Journal of Optics increased by 27 percent to 1.990 and Nonlinearity, published in partnership with the London Mathematical Society, increased by 16 percent to 1.602.
