Cell Press journals show significant increases in multiple citation-based measures of impact - June 25, 2013
Science published in Cell Press journals continues to deliver high impact across the research community as reflected in the measures of citation recently released in the 2012 Journal Citation Reports (JCR) published by Thomson Reuters. Looking across impact factor (IF) and immediacy… Read More
Impact Factor success for open access publisher BioMed Central - June 25, 2013
Open access publisher BioMed Central has announced that its flagship journal Genome Biology passed a major milestone this week, increasing its Impact Factor to double figures in the Thomson Reuters 2012 Journal Citation Report (JCR). The new Impact Factor of 10.288 confirms its position as the… Read More
Royal Society of Chemistry journals continue to show Impact Factor growth - June 24, 2013
The Royal Society of Chemistry has announced that its publishing portfolio has once again shown outstanding excellence, with the publication of the latest Impact Factors (IF) report from Thomson Reuters. Six out of the top 20 multidisciplinary chemistry journals are published by the RSC. The… Read More
Global Nature Publishing Index 2012 supplement released, United States continues to dominate world science - June 21, 2013
The United States remains the superpower of science, dominating a ranking of the world's top 200 institutions in 2012, published in the first Nature Publishing Index (NPI) Global supplement. The UK, Germany and Japan make up a solid top four countries in terms of high quality… Read More
IOP Publishing journals show Impact Factor growth for ninth consecutive year - June 21, 2013
IOP Publishing, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Institute of Physics, has announced that the 2012 Impact Factors, published by Thomson Reuters, show growth for many of its journals for the ninth consecutive year. This year, 33 of the titles published by IOP have seen… Read More
Thomson Reuters unveils 2013 edition of Journal Citation Reports - June 20, 2013
The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced the release of the 2013 edition of its Journal Citation Reports (JCR), an influential resource for evaluating peer-reviewed publications and the source of the annual Journal Impact Factors. The Journal Citation Reports provides an… Read More
China boosts top quality science publications by 35 percent in 2012 - May 31, 2013
Authors based in China contributed 8.5 percent of all research papers published in Nature branded journals in 2012, up 35 percent on 2011 figures. This is according to the Nature Publishing Index 2012 (NPI) China, published as a supplement to Nature. Authors from institutions in China… Read More
OSA and Scholarly iQ issue COUNTER Release 4 compliant usage reports for OSA journals - May 30, 2013
The Optical Society (OSA) and Scholarly iQ has announced that OSA's usage statistics for its portfolio of peer-reviewed journals have been upgraded and are now available using the new COUNTER Release 4 (R4) standards. These new standards, like the ones already in place, have been accepted… Read More
Wiley launches trial of Altmetric service on subscription and OA articles - May 21, 2013
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has launched a trial of Altmetric, a service that tracks and measures the impact of scholarly articles and datasets on both traditional and social media. The six month trial will run on a number of subscription and open access journals… Read More
San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment calls for sweeping changes in scientific assessment - May 20, 2013
Scientists, journal editors and publishers, scholarly societies, and research funders across many scientific disciplines have posted an international declaration calling on the world scientific community to eliminate the role of the journal impact factor (JIF) in evaluating research for funding, hiring, promotion, or institutional effectiveness. The San Francisco Declaration on… Read More
