Thomson Reuters promotes Web of Science as its next generation research discovery platform - January 17, 2014
The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters unveiled its strategy for the next generation Web of Science, a trusted citation index for an important scientific and scholarly literature. A new, user-friendly interface, expanded content and convenient open-web links substantially enhance the Web of Science… Read More
IEEE statement on appropriate use of bibliometric indicators in evaluation of scientific publications - November 19, 2013
Technical professional organisation IEEE recently issued a statement on the appropriate use of bibliometric indicators in journal citations to emphasise the importance of providing accurate citation counts and other indicators when evaluating the quality and impact of scientific publications. The IEEE recognises the increasing importance of… Read More
BioMed Central journals upgrade to full membership of Peerage of Science - September 4, 2013
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced an increased involvement with Peerage of Science, stepping up to full membership for four of its journals - Frontiers in Zoology, BMC Ecology, BMC Evolutionary Biology and BMC Biology. Peerage of Science is a peer review initiative launched… Read More
Taiwan has most citations per paper in educational research, says research - August 27, 2013
Taiwan has produced the most-cited publications on educational research projects around the world during the past three years. This is according to a recently published research conducted by Tseng Yuen-hsien, a research fellow and deputy head of National Taiwan Normal University's (NTNU's) Information Technology Center. … Read More
Emerald reports Impact Factor increase for journals - July 19, 2013
Following the release of the Journal Citation Reports by Thomson Reuters in June, academic publisher Emerald, UK, has announced increased impact factors for 71 per cent of its titles currently indexed. The report reflects outstanding performances for journals in the Operations and Logistics Management collection.… Read More
Elsevier announces 2012 Journal Impact Factor highlights - July 17, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the highlights of its journal Impact Factor performance in 2012. According to the 2012 Journal Citation Reports (JCR) published by Thomson Reuters, Elsevier saw 53 percent of its journal Impact Factors increase from 2011 to 2012. Furthermore, 17 percent of… Read More
SAGE reports strong performance in 2012 Journal Citation Reports - July 17, 2013
Academic publisher SAGE reported strong performance across its journals portfolio in the 2012 Journal Citation Reports (Thomson Reuters, 2013), with an increase of 30 indexed titles on prior year to 461 across both the Social Science (SSCI) and Science (SCI) Citation Indexes. Over the last… Read More
Wolters Kluwer Health announces Impact Factor gains across its LWW journal portfolio and Medknow OA titles - July 16, 2013
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced impact factor gains across its Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) journal portfolio and Medknow open access titles with the release of the latest Impact Factor (IF) scores and specialty rankings, based on the 2012 Journal Citation Reports®… Read More
Nature Communications’ and Scientific Reports’ submission and publication rates continue to grow rapidly - July 15, 2013
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG) has announced that Nature Communications and Scientific Reports are now the fastest growing journals published by NPG. Launched in 2010 and 2011 respectively, both journals reached the milestone of 2000 published papers in June 2013, and their submission and publication… Read More
Springer announces impact factor increases for journals in 2012 - July 11, 2013
STM publisher Springer has announced that among those journals receiving a first-time impact factor (IF), 46 were Springer publications. Thomson Reuters recently released its Journal Citation Reports (JCR) for 2012. This brings the total number of Springer journals with IFs to 1,539, many of which… Read More
