Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly business of publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced a continued increase in the number and proportion of its journal titles with an impact factor, with 1,087 titles (73 percent) included in the 2010 Journal Citation Reports (JCR).
This is an increase of 7 percent from the 2009 JCR and includes 58 titles which have received their first impact factor. Anatomical Sciences Education secured a stunning debut as the number 1 ranked journal in education, scientific disciplines. The portfolio includes 317 top 10 rankings.
Wiley-Blackwell has reportedly been making strong advances within both Science and Social Science categories.
The Wiley-Blackwell published journal with the highest impact factor in the Science JCR is the top-ranked CA-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians at 94.262 - the highest impact factor of all titles.
In the Social Science JCR, Wiley-Blackwell published 13 percent of the journals and 14 percent of the articles, receiving an impressive 16 percent of the citations. According to the company, it has the highest number of JCR indexed social science publications of any academic publisher. The highest Social Science JCR impact factor for a Wiley-Blackwell journal is the number one ranked Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development with an impact factor of 7.333.
Impact factors are a metric that reflect the frequency that peer-reviewed journals are cited by researchers, making them an important tool for evaluating a journal's quality.
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