Wiley announces increased impact factors for journal titles - July 12, 2012
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced that there is a continued increase in the proportion of its journal titles indexed in the Thomson ISI 2011 Journal Citation Reports (JCR). A total of 1,156 Wiley titles (approximately 76 percent) were indexed, representing an increase… Read More
Springer announces impact factor increases for 2011 - July 6, 2012
STM publisher Springer Science+Business Media, Germany, has announced significant increases in impact factors throughout its journal portfolio, according to the 2011 Journal Citation Reports (JCR), published by Thomson Reuters. A total of 62 Springer journals earned their first impact factor this year, bringing the number… Read More
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins reports significant gains in 2011 impact factor rankings - July 3, 2012
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced exceptional gains across 193 journals in its portfolio with the latest Impact Factor (IF) scores and specialty rankings, based on the 2011 Journal Citation Reports (Thomson Reuters). Overall, 57 percent of LWW journals… Read More
RSC Publishing reports continued growth in impact factor journals - July 3, 2012
The Royal Society of Chemistry has announced that its publishing portfolio once again improved its Impact Factors following publication of the 2011 results. Last year the RSC published four times as many articles as it did in 2006 meaning a rise in quantity has gone hand… Read More
Nature Communications joins Nature at the top of the multidisciplinary sciences category in 2011 JCR - July 2, 2012
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced that Nature Communications has joined Nature at the top of the multidisciplinary sciences category in the 2011 Journal Citation Report (JCR). The journal received its first impact factor of 7.396, when Thomson Reuters published the 2011 JCR.… Read More
IOP Publishing journals witness significant Impact Factor growth - July 2, 2012
Non-profit scientific publisher Institute of Physics (IOP) Publishing, UK, has announced that the 2011 Impact Factors published by Thomson Reuters, once again show significant growth for many of the journals published by IOP Publishing (IOP) for the eighth year running. This year, 34 of the… Read More
OSA journals post impressive impact factors - July 2, 2012
The Optical Society (OSA) has announced that its journals have again generated the most citations and largest number of articles of any publisher in the optics category of the 2011 Journal Citation Reports (Thomson Reuters JCR, 2011). In addition, OSA’s latest journal, Biomedical Optics Express, which… Read More
Thomson Reuters releases 2011 Journal Citation Reports - June 28, 2012
The Intellectual Property & Science division of Thomson Reuters has announced the release of the 2011 Journal Citation Reports (JCR). The JCR claims to be the world's most influential resource for information on highly cited, peer-reviewed publications and the source of annual Journal Impact Factors. The… Read More
Thomson Reuters’ Data Citation Index connects researchers to data repositories worldwide - June 22, 2012
The Intellectual Property & Science division of Thomson Reuters has announced that it will preview at the American Library Association Conference (ALA) the Data Citation Index, an upcoming research resource within the Web of Knowledge to facilitate the discovery, use and attribution of data sets and… Read More
Ringgold becomes first ISNI Registration Agency for institutional identification - May 29, 2012
Journal supply chain support provider Ringgold Inc has contracted with the ISNI International Agency to be the first ISNI (International Standard Name Identifier) Registration Agency for institutional identification. Ringgold will incorporate ISNIs into its Identify database of institutional identifiers and distribute these ISNIs without charge… Read More
