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
ORCID, ISNI plan interoperability - April 24, 2013
ORCID and ISNI have issued a joint statement on the need for interoperation between the two organisations and about the first collaborative steps in defining system interoperability. While ORCID is an international, interdisciplinary, open and not-for-profit organisation, ISNI is a UK-based non-for-profit… Read More
China to overtake Japan in research output, says Nature Publishing Index - March 22, 2013
Nature Publishing Group has released the lead conclusions of the 2012 Nature Publishing Index (NPI) 2012 Asia-Pacific, published in the journal Nature. According to the supplement, Japan continues to lead the Asia-Pacific in research output, but it could be overtaken by China in the coming years.… Read More
MRS Communications covered in Thomson Reuters Science Citation Index - March 5, 2013
MRS Communications, a journal that seeks to publish high-impact materials research with timeliness and scientific quality, has been selected for Thomas Reuters' Journal Citation Reports Science Edition and Current Contents/Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences. The Citation Index recognises journals of key importance in their subject areas… Read More
Carbon Management accepted for coverage by ISI - March 1, 2013
Future Science Ltd, part of Future Science Group, UK, has announced that its journal Carbon Management has been selected for coverage by ISI. Beginning with volume 1 (2010), Carbon Management will be indexed and abstracted in Science Citation Index Expanded (also known as SciSearch®); Journal Citation… Read More
