Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and the American College of Medical Genetics (ACMG) have announced a publishing partnership for the journal Genetics in Medicine. Under the deal, NPG will begin publishing the journal in January 2012 on behalf of ACMG.
Genetics in Medicine (GIM) is the official journal of the ACMG, one of the largest professional associations of medical geneticists in the US. The journal seeks to enhance the knowledge and practice of medical genetics. A peer-reviewed monthly journal, GIM publishes original research papers in contemporary genetic medicine, including such areas as genomics, chromosome abnormalities, metabolic diseases, the clinical application of next-generation sequencing, single gene disorders, genetics and the law, and all levels of education in human medical genetics.
Published since 1998, the journal has a 2009 Impact Factor of 3.922 and ranks 37 out of 146 Genetics and Heredity journals in the 2009 Journal Citation Report (Thomson Reuters, 2010). Editor-in-Chief, Dr. James P. Evans, Director of the Bryson Program in Human Genetics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, leads an expert editorial board.
Site licenses and personal subscriptions for GIM will be available from NPG from January 2012. The journal and its archives will be available on the nature.com platform. Membership to ACMG includes personal subscriptions both in print and online. The journal will introduce an open access option from January 2012, whereby authors can choose to make their article open access on payment of an article processing charge (APC).
NPG will work with the journal's current publisher, Wolters Kluwer Health / Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, throughout the journal's transition in 2011 and will fully adhere to the TRANSFER Code of Practice.
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