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SAGE remains the market leader (by number of ranked titles) in 10 categories, including communication, criminology, political science, sociology, and urban studies.

Highlights from the Social Science Edition include:

-An increase to the #1 ranking for Personality and Social Psychology Review, which doubled its impact factor to 8.500, the 8th highest impact factor in the entire Social Science Edition -An increase to the #1 ranking from 4th for Review of Educational Research -Field Methods, a key title in SAGE’s renowned research methods list, is a new entrant at #5 out of 61 in Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary

Highlights from the Science Edition include:

- A #1 ranking for Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair for the third year in a row
- The American Journal of Sports Medicine increased to #2 from #4 in Sports Sciences and retained its #2 ranking in Orthopedics
- Medical Decision Making increased its impact factor by 33%, maintaining its #3 rank in Medical Informatics and moving to #8 from #15 in Health Care Sciences & Services
- Integrative Cancer Therapies was a new entrant at #2 in Integrative & Complementary Medicine
- Surgical Innovation was a new entrant at #40 out of 148 in Surgery

Seventeen journals were ranked for the first time, including six in SAGE’s expanding portfolio in science, technology and medicine.

Calculated each year, JCR impact factors measure how often articles in a given journal are cited in other peer reviewed publications.

Two publications — The American Historical Review and the Journal of Labor Economics — ranked first in their respective categories of “History” and “Industrial Relations & Labor.” JOLE also increased its ranking to thirteenth among the more than two hundred journals in the “Economics” category.

The Quarterly Review of Biology raised its ranking from tenth to fourth among Biology journals, while Clinical Infectious Diseases and The Journal of Infectious Diseases ranked second and fourth in “Infectious Diseases.” Other journals in the top five of their respective categories were American Journal of Sociology (second in “Sociology”), The Journal of Geology (third in “Geology”), Current Anthropology (fifth in “Anthropology”), Journal of British Studies (fifth in “History”) and Journal of Political Economy (fifth in “Economics”).

Also making substantial gains in rank were Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, which moved up to eleventh among over one hundred journals in “Zoology,” and Osiris, which moved up to eighth among “History and Philosophy of Science/Social Science”
journals.

“We are proud that University of Chicago Press journals continue to play a prominent role in scholarly conversation across a wide variety of disciplines,” said Press Director Garrett Kiely. “Our consistently high impact factors are a reflection of the high standards of excellence the Press maintains in the publication of our entire journals portfolio.”

For more information about the University of Chicago Press journals, visit http://www.journals.uchicago.edu. Learn more about Journal Citation Reports at http://isiwebofknowledge.com/products_to….

The release of the 2008 Journal Citation Reports includes the first-ever update to the newly introduced Five Year Impact Factor and Eigenfactor™ Metrics in JCR Web. Eigenfactor™ Metrics use citing journal data from the entire JCR file to reflect the prestige and citation influence of journals by considering scholarly literature as a network of journal-to-journal relationships.

“The research community anticipates the annual release of JCR as it always means new discovery,” said James Testa, Senior Director, Editorial Development and Publisher Relations at Thomson Reuters. “The addition of new metrics such as the Five Year Impact Factor is a reflection of our commitment to providing publishers and scholars with tools that allow a more multifaceted understanding of a journal’s place in the world.”

JCR presents quantitative data that provide an objective way to evaluate the world’s leading journals and their impact and influence in the global research community. In addition to the benefits these metrics offer to authors and institutions, JCR and Impact Factors may be used by publishers to benchmark journal performance against competitors to create a better focused market strategy.

JCR covers more than 8,000 of the world’s most highly cited, peer-reviewed journals from 66 nations. The production of the 2008 JCR included the analysis of more than 44 million cited references from journals, and proceedings. For more information on Journal Citation Reports, please visit http://isiwebofknowledge.com/products_to…