The Royal Society of Chemistry has announced that its publishing portfolio once again improved its Impact Factors following publication of the 2011 results. Last year the RSC published four times as many articles as it did in 2006 meaning a rise in quantity has gone hand in hand with a rise in quality overall.
Individual journal highlights include ChemComm (6.17), Green Chemistry (6.32), Energy & Environmental Science (9.61), Natural Product Reports (9.79) and ChemSocRev (28.76). An impressive first Impact Factors were recorded for Chemical Science (7.52) and Polymer Chemistry (5.32).
The average Impact Factor (IF) for a chemistry journal stands at 2.67 - the RSC's average IF is 5.46. According to the Society, of the top 20 journals in the multidisciplinary chemistry category, six are from RSC Publishing. Almost half of the Society’s 27 journals have an IF of 5 and above.
