Posts tagged Impact Factor

Nature Special: Science Metrics

Jun 25th

Posted by Beatriz Rodriguez-Cabo in news

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Last week, Nature dedicated its section “Nature Specials” to Science Metrics,  the way the scientific community measures the value of scientific output, from the citation index to the h-index and more. Do they work? Are they fair?

Quite a lot of the content can be accessed online for free here

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2008/2009 Impact Factor Just Came Out

Jun 19th

Posted by Beatriz Rodriguez-Cabo in news

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Some days ago, the 2008/2009 Journal Citation Reports of ISI Web of Knowledge have been published.

Journal Citation Reports are composed of two parts: the Science Edition and the Social Sciences Edition, in which journals are ranked according their impact factor during the last year. 

In the Science Edition, we can find a category called “Neurosciences”, with three journals of the Nature Publishing Group in the top 5 journals of this category; with Nature Reviews Neuroscience having the highest impact factor in this category during the last year

  1. Nature Reviews Neuroscience (26.483)
  2. Annual Review of Neuroscience (24.822)
  3. Behavioral and Brain Sciences (19.045)
  4. Molecular Psychiatry (15.049)
  5. Nature Neuroscience (14.345)

Other well-known journals include the American Journal of Psychiatry (12.522) and the Archives of General Psychiatry (12.257), listed in 2nd and 3d place in the category “Psychiatry”, with, again, Molecular Psychiatry in the top one of this category.

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