RSC Publishing announces increase in impact factor for its journals - July 12, 2011
Scientific publisher RSC Publishing, the publishing arm of the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK, has announced overall increases in impact factor for RSC journals. The average impact factor (IF) now stands at 5.5. RSC Publishing figures have risen by 59 percent since 2003 - almost… Read More
Wiley-Blackwell reports continued growth in impact factor journals - July 11, 2011
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly business of publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced a continued increase in the number and proportion of its journal titles with an impact factor, with 1,087 titles (73 percent) included in the 2010 Journal Citation Reports (JCR). … Read More
BMJ Group announces impact factor rise for more than half of its journal titles - July 8, 2011
Medical publisher the BMJ Group, UK, has announced impact factor rise for more than half of its journal titles. The impact factor, which measures the average citations to articles published in a journal, has risen for more than half of the specialist titles published by the… Read More
Future Science Group announces continued growth in impact factors - July 5, 2011
Publisher Future Science Group, UK, has announced highlights of its latest journal Impact Factor results, with impressive increases across its imprints Future Medicine, Future Science and Expert Reviews, following the recent publication of the new Impact Factors in the 2010 Journal Citation Report (JCR) by Thomson… Read More
Cell Press titles post impressive impact factors - July 4, 2011
Cell Press, an imprint of STM publisher Elsevier, has announced that its flagship journal Cell's 2010 impact factor increased to 32.401, according to new data released in the Journal Citation Reports published by Thomson Reuters. The impact factor for Cell, a leading research journal in Cell… Read More
AIP announces significant increase in impact factors of several key titles - July 4, 2011
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) has announced significant increases in the impact factors of many of its key titles, as reported in the 2010 Journal Citation Reports (JCR). Stand-out performances include a 34.6 percent jump by Biomicrofluidics, a more than 15 percent increase by… Read More
Nature most highly cited journal in the JCR - July 1, 2011
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced that it achieved outstanding results, with Nature's Impact Factor for 2010 reaching a new high of 36.101. Nature articles received over 500,000 citations in 2010, making it the most highly cited journal in the 2010 Journal Citation… Read More
IOP Publishing journals post impressive impact factors for seventh consecutive year - June 30, 2011
Non-profit scientific publisher Institute of Physics (IOP) Publishing, UK, has announced that the 2010 Impact Factors, published by Thomson Reuters, show significant growth for many of its journals for the seventh consecutive year. This year, 73 percent of the titles published by IOP have seen… Read More
Thomson Reuters releases 2010 Journal Citation Reports - June 29, 2011
Business information provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced the release of the 2010 Journal Citation Reports (JCR). JCR claims to be the world's most influential source of information about highly-cited, peer reviewed publications and the source of the new Journal Impact Factors. The 2010 release features… Read More
AIP Publishing launches article-level metrics for new OA journal, AIP Advances - June 22, 2011
AIP Publishing, a division of the American Institute of Physics (AIP), has announced the launch of article-level metrics for its new, open access journal AIP Advances. The COUNTER 3-compliant tool measures abstract and full-text article views and offers a graphical snapshot of… Read More
