MRS Communications receives first impact factor - July 8, 2013
Academic publisher Cambridge University Press and Materials Research Society have announced that MRS Communications received its first impact factor (IF) of 1.250, based on just one issue. Also notable - the journal achieved this ranking in its first year of eligibility and within two years of… Read More
Mayo Clinic Proceedings 2012 Impact Factor grows to 5.79 - July 3, 2013
The latest Impact Factor data for Mayo Clinic Proceedings shows progressive growth over the past 13 years, with the newly released 2012 scoring (published June 19, 2013) bringing the journal to a 5.79 Impact Factor. This places the journal in the top 7 percent of 151… Read More
IEEE journals post impressive impact factors - July 3, 2013
Technical professional organisation IEEE has maintained its position as one of the top publishers of science and technology journals. According to the 2012 Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports (JCR) released in June 2013, IEEE journals sustained their status as premier scholarly publications, earning high rankings in… Read More
Wiley announces increase in Impact Factors - July 2, 2013
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced a continued increase in the proportion of its journal titles indexed in the Thomson Reuters 2012 Journal Citation Reports (JCR), with 1,192 (about 77 percent) titles now indexed, up from 1,156 in the 2011 JCR. Wiley titles… Read More
APA reports significant increases in impact factors in its portfolio of journals - June 27, 2013
The American Psychological Association (APA) has reported significant increases in impact factors in its portfolio of journals indexed in the 2012 Journal Citation Report (JCR), published by Thomson Reuters. In total, 76 percent of APA's publications received a 2012 impact factor. APA's journals received 32… Read More
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc reports significant growth in impact factors of its journals - June 26, 2013
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers has announced significant growth in the impact factors of its peer-reviewed journals, as reported in the 2012 Journal Citation Reports (JCR) (Thomson Reuters 2013). Sixty percent of the Publisher's portfolio of indexed journals received increased impact factors, with 20 titles seeing… Read More
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
