Category Archives: journal ranking

Updated release of Thomson Journal Citation Reports includes missing Impact Factors

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Thomson have released an update to the online version of their Journal Citation Reports. This release includes official Impact Factors for BMC Systems Biology, Chemistry Central Journal, Diagnostic Pathology, Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Neural Development and Radiation Oncology (which had been omitted in error from the earlier release of the JCR in June 2009) and [...]

he ARC has released the full journal title list for the full implementation of ERA

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Please note: The revised list contains 273 ERA IDs which were not on the previous release and 1,374 ERA IDs have been deleted from the list because they did not meet the ERA journal requirements.
Journal FoR code assignment(s) and rank has not yet been released at this stage in the process.
If you are aware of [...]

The Inflation of Impact Factors of Scientific Journals

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For many years, the scientific community made use of the Journal Impact Factor, created by Garfield and Sher in 1963 and commercially distributed by the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI-today part of Thomson Reuters), to approximate the standing of an academic periodical. Nowadays, we are confronted with a multitude of different impact factors, namely, the [...]

ERA Journal Title List

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The ARC has released the full journal title list for the 2010 implementation of ERA including the following information:
Journal Name
ISSN(s)
Academic / Scholarly status
Peer review status
Journal FoR code assignment(s) and rank has not yet been released.
If you are aware of a journal which meets the ERA requirements (i.e. is a peer reviewed, academic/scholarly publication with an [...]

The most influential journals: Impact Factor and Eigenfactor

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Progressin science is driven by the publication of novel ideas and experiments, most usually in peer-reviewed journals, but nowadays increasingly just on the internet. We all have our own ideas of which are the most influential journals, but is there a simple statistical metric of the influence of a journal? Most scientists would immediately say [...]

SAGE Journals Continue Strong Growth in the Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports

Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore and Washington DC (June 30, 2009) – SAGE, the world’s leading independent academic publisher, is pleased to announce strong growth in the just released 2008 Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports (JCR).
SAGE has increased its number of ranked titles by an additional 11%, with 68% of journals increasing their impact [...]

University of Chicago Press Journals Score High in Latest Impact Factor Rankings

The latest Journal Citation Reports (JCR) by Thomson Reuters again place University of Chicago Press journals at the top of their fields. Fourteen of the thirty-three Press journals rated in the JCR have impact factors in the top ten of their respective categories, with eight journals ranking in the top five.
Calculated each year, JCR impact [...]

JMIR Achieves #1 Position in Thomson Reuters Impact Factor Ranking

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The Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), an innovative, open access OJS journal, has been recognized by Thomson Reuters Impact Factor rankings as the top cited, number one ranked journal in its discipline.
source: OJS blog

Hindawi’s Impact Factors Increase by 27%

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June 23, 2009
Hindawi Publishing Corporation is pleased to announce that it has seen very strong growth in the Impact Factors of its journals in the recently released 2008 Journal Citation Report published by Thomson Scientific. This most recent Journal Citation Report shows the average Impact Factor of Hindawi’s journals increasing [...]

Thomson Reuters Releases 2008 Journal Citation Reports New Titles and Metrics Include Five Year Impact Factor and Eigenfactor™ Metrics

Philadelphia, PA, London, UK, June 22, 2009 – The Healthcare & Science business of Thomson Reuters today announced the release of the 2008 Journal Citation Reports, available to subscribers of the JCR. These metrics have come to define journal performance across disciplines and institutions worldwide. The 2008 JCR contains more than 400 new titles, including [...]

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