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
Tools to assess research impact at the article level gaining ground - May 28, 2012
The impact of academic research has long been measured using citations, often with the Journal Impact Factor being used to assess individual publications within it, it has been observed. However, the Impact Factor is a journal level - not an article level - metric and, as academic publishing and the… Read More
China set to become global leader in science publishing, according to Nature index - May 24, 2012
China presently publishes more than 6 percent of the papers published in Nature journals, according to the Nature Publishing Index 2011 China. Published as a supplement to Nature, the index is seen to provide yet more evidence that China is fast becoming a global leader in… Read More
Thomson Reuters improves measurement of Universities’ performance with new data on faculty size, reputation, funding and citation measures - April 13, 2012
The Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced the availability of 138 percent more performance indicators and nearly 20 percent more university data within Institutional Profiles, the company’s online resource covering more than 500 of the world’s leading academic research institutions. This new… Read More
Thomson Reuters names Hottest Scientific Researchers and Papers of the year - April 12, 2012
The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced ‘The Hottest Research of 2011’, a ranking of the most influential scientific researchers and research papers of the year by Science Watch, its open Web resource for science metrics and analysis. Tracking researchers whose recent… Read More
