Non-profit scientific publisher Institute of Physics (IOP) Publishing, UK, has announced that the 2011 Impact Factors published by Thomson Reuters, once again show significant growth for many of the journals published by IOP Publishing (IOP) for the eighth year running.
This year, 34 of the titles published by IOP have seen an increase in citations from last year. Additionally, 17 titles have had an increase of over 10 percent and 50 percent of IOP's journals have Impact Factors above 2.000.
There were high performances from individual journals. In the Journal of Physics series there have been significant increases for Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter (2.546), Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics (2.544) and Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics (4.178). As relative newcomers in the journals' market, both Environmental Research Letters (3.631) and Journal of Neural Engineering (3.837) have established themselves with significant increases in Impact Factor this year.
New Journal of Physics, the company’s first open access title, published in partnership with Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, received its highest ever Impact Factor of 4.177. Nanotechnology (3.979) and Reports on Progress in Physics (14.720) witnessed significant increases as both journals claim to be the largest of their kind - Nanotechnology in publishing full length primary research devoted to all aspects of nanoscale science and technology and Reports on Progress in Physics, the biggest review journal in its category.
In the field of materials science, Science and Technology of Advanced Materials, an open access journal funded by National Institute for Materials Science, has increased to 3.513 and Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering has increased by 66 percent to 2.298.
