OIC to launch science citation index for Islamic countries - October 21, 2008
Member countries of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) have reportedly approved the formation of an Islamic Citation Centre (ISC) to be based in Iran. This was announced at the recently concluded Fourth Islamic Conference of the Ministers of Higher Education and Scientific Research, held… Read More
Emerald launches new online pre-publication service - October 20, 2008
Academic and professional literature publisher Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., UK, has launched Emerald EarlyCite, a new online pre-publication service allowing quicker access to research. EarlyCite articles are fully peer-reviewed and made available online before they undergo the full sub-editing and page-proofing stages.… Read More
Thieme Publishers report strong performance in 2007 Journal Citation Reports - July 29, 2008
Thieme Publishers, part of STM publisher Thieme Publishing Group, Germany, has announced a significant increase in impact factors as reported in the Thomson Reuters 2007 Journal Citation Reports (JCR). Its journals experienced substantial increases across the majority of subject areas, including key fields such as Critical… Read More
LWW Journals gain significant gains in impact factor - July 28, 2008
Healthcare publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health, US, announced major increases in journal impact factors across its portfolio. According to the 2007 Journal Citation Reports published by ThomsonReuters, over 65 percent of 147 ranked LWW journals increased their impact factor. The… Read More
Pharmaceutical Science division of Informa reports high journal impact rankings - July 23, 2008
Medical scientific publisher Informa Healthcare, UK, a division of Informa plc, has announced that its Pharmaceutical Science division has posted the highlights of its latest Journal Impact Factor results, with impressive results across the division's range of titles. Critical Reviews in Toxicology, currently ranked second out… Read More
Emerald reports strong performance in 2007 Journal Citation Reports - July 22, 2008
Management research publisher Emerald Group Publishing Limited, UK, has announced that, following the 2007 Journal Citation Reports recently released by Thomson Reuters, it has achieved its best ever year in 2007 - with more journals now ranked by Thomson Reuters, one of the major indicators of… Read More
New impact factor for European Association of Urology’ European Urology - July 17, 2008
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that European Urology, the official journal of the European Association of Urology (EAU), has a newly released impact factor of 5.634. European Urology (also the "Platinum Journal") offers its readers and authors quality papers, fast response and an international profile.… Read More
Wiley-VCH journals make an Impact - July 11, 2008
Wiley-VCH, the German subsidiary of John Wiley & Sons, US, has announced that more than 65 percent of its journals have shown a year on year increase in their Impact Factor or Immediacy Index. A number of new journals have also received excellent first ratings in… Read More
More BioMed Central journals chosen for inclusion in MEDLINE and CABI - July 9, 2008
Open access publisher BioMed Central, US, has announced that three of its journals have recently been accepted for inclusion in MEDLINE. The journals - Biology Direct, Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Neural Development - were accepted following review by the Literature Selection Technical Review Committee, an… Read More
Biology Direct and Algorithms for Molecular Biology receive first official Impact Factors - July 4, 2008
Open access publisher BioMed Central, US, has announced that it has received confirmation from Thomson Reuters of official 2007 Impact Factors for Biology Direct (3.29) and Algorithms for Molecular Biology (1.63). Impact Factors for these two journals, both of which focus on aspects of computational biology,… Read More
