American Journal of Public Health announces increased impact factor for 2009 - June 23, 2010
The American Journal of Public Health (AJPH), published by the American Public Health Association, has reported an increased impact factor for 2009. The 2009 impact factor for AJPH is 4.371 up from 4.241 in 2008. The journal ranks #2 out of 95 titles in the Public,… Read More
Latest Cell Press journals post impressive impact factors - June 22, 2010
Cell Press, an imprint of STM publisher Elsevier, has announced that in the year since their 2008 preliminary ranking, Cell Press journals Cell Stem Cell and Cell Host and Microbe saw their Impact Factors surge, according to new data released in the 2009 Journal Citation Reports… Read More
AIP applied physics journals top Thomson Reuters rankings again in 2009 - June 21, 2010
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) has announced that AIP journals produced nearly one quarter of the articles in the Applied Physics category last year, and received almost 40 percent of all the cited references in the category. These numbers are among the figures reported in… Read More
Thomson Reuters releases 2009 Journal Citation Reports - June 18, 2010
Information services provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced the release of the 2009 Journal Citation Reports (JCR). JCR claims to be the most widely used tool for assessing the world's leading journals. The metrics it offers, including Journal Impact Factor, empower users to objectively evaluate a… Read More
RSC Publishing journals now indexed in Thomson Reuters’ Science Citation Index – Expanded - April 1, 2010
Scientific publisher RSC Publishing, the publishing arm of the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK, has announced that two of its latest journals - Nanoscale and Analytical Methods, have now been included by Thomson Reuters ISI in the Science Citation Index - Expanded. All articles published… Read More
One hundred BioMed Central journals now indexed in Medline - April 1, 2010
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that three of its journals have been accepted for inclusion in MEDLINE. The journals are: Behavioral & Brain Functions, Molecular Brain and Particle and Fibre Toxicology. This brings the number of BioMed Central journals indexed in MEDLINE to… Read More
Nano Research listed in Thomson Reuters’ Science Citation Index-Expanded - March 17, 2010
Nano Research, an English-language journal jointly published by STM publisher Springer and Tsinghua University Press is now listed in Thomson Reuters’ Science Citation Index-Expanded (SCI-E). The academic journal has been covered in the index from Volume 1, Issue 1. Nano Research is part of Springer’s Chinese… Read More
Nature launches Nature Asia-Pacific Publishing Index - March 11, 2010
NPG Nature Asia-Pacific, the Asia-Pacific wing of Nature Publishing Group (NPG), has launched Nature Asia-Pacific Publishing Index, a website which measures the annual output of research articles in Nature-branded journals from countries and institutions in the Asia-Pacific region. The online service is available at Read More
BioMed Central journal ranked highly by new ‘SNIP’ citation metric - March 9, 2010
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases is its highest-ranking journal based on the SNIP metric, with a value of 1.31 (the median SNIP for the ~17,000 journals in Scopus is 0.52). This places the journal in the top… Read More
RSNA journal receives top rating from the Australian Research Council - February 24, 2010
The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) has announced that its journal Radiology has been awarded the highest rating from the Australian Research Council. The journal ranking tool is part of the Council's mission to assess research quality within Australia's higher education institutions. Experts evaluated 20,712… Read More
