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Impact factor The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a measure reflecting the yearly average number of citations to recent articles published in that journal. It is frequently used as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal within its field; journals with higher impact factors are often deemed to be more important than those with lower ones. The impact factor was devised by Eugene Garfield, the founder of the Institute for Scientific Information. Impact factors are calculated yearly starting from 1975 for journals listed in the "Journal Citation Reports". In any
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be included in the "Journal Citation Reports", and the journal received an impact factor of 4.411 in 2010. According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal has a 2016 impact factor of 2.806. The articles are indexed in: On April 29, 2015, Fiona Ingleby and Megan Head, postdoctoral fellows at the University of Sussex and Australian National University respectively, posted a rejection letter, which they said was sent to them by a peer reviewer for a journal they did not wish to name. The excerpt made negative comments about women's aptitude for science and advised Ingleby and Head to find
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Finance and Decision Sciences, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Editors-in-chief of the journal have included: There have been several highly cited articles published in Internet Research, including the 1992 article, "World‐wide web: the information universe", which is one of the first academic articles where Sir Tim Berners-Lee mentions the phrase "World-wide web". According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal has a 2016 impact factor of 2.931, ranking it 34th out of 146 journals in the category "COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS". The 2015 impact factor was 3.017, which was the highest impact factor of any Emerald journal that year.
Internet Research (journal)
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Impact factor The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a measure reflecting the yearly average number of citations to recent articles published in that journal. It is frequently used as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal within its field; journals with higher impact factors are often deemed to be more important than those with lower ones. The impact factor was devised by Eugene Garfield, the founder of the Institute for Scientific Information. Impact factors are calculated yearly starting from 1975 for journals listed in the "Journal Citation Reports". In any
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impact factors are produced by companies not affiliated with Journal Citation Reports. These are often used by predatory publishers; Jeffrey Beall maintained a list of such misleading metrics. Consulting Journal Citation Reports' master journal list can confirm if a publication is indexed by Journal Citation Reports, which is a necessary (but not sufficient) condition for obtaining an IF. Use of fake impact metrics is considered a "red flag". Impact factor The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a measure reflecting the yearly average number of citations to recent articles published in that journal.
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with an impact factor of 0.66, published an editorial that cited all its articles from 2005 to 2006 in a protest against the "absurd scientific situation in some countries" related to use of the impact factor. The large number of citations meant that the impact factor for that journal increased to 1.44. As a result of the increase, the journal was not included in the 2008 and 2009 "Journal Citation Reports". Coercive citation is a practice in which an editor forces an author to add extraneous citations to an article before the journal will agree to publish it, in order
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indexed in: According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal had a 2013 impact factor of 1.219. However, the journal did not receive an impact factor over 2011, nor was it listed in the 2015 "Journal Citation Reports" because of "anomalous citation patterns". The Scientific World Journal The Scientific World Journal (formerly, "The ScientificWorldJournal") is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering fields in the life sciences ranging from biomedicine to environmental sciences. It was established in 2001 and is published by Hindawi Publishing Corporation. The journal was delisted in the 2015 "Journal Citation Reports" (thus not receiving an impact factor) because
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Journal of Medicine" "provided the first significant mainstream visibility for a publication that would achieve enormous attention and prestige in the ensuing decades." The journal usually has the highest impact factor of the journals of internal medicine. According to the Journal Citation Reports, "NEJM" had a 2017 impact factor of 79.258, ranking it first of 153 journals in the category "General & Internal Medicine". It was the only journal in the category with an impact factor of more than 70. By comparison, the second and third ranked journals in the category ("The Lancet" and "JAMA") had impact factors of 53.254
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with an impact factor of 2.212 in 2008, and an impact factor of 2.572 in 2009. "Journal of the Physical Society of Japan" is indexed in the following bibliographic databases: Journal of the Physical Society of Japan Journal of the Physical Society of Japan (JPSJ) is a monthly, peer reviewed, scientific journal published by the Physical Society of Japan (JPS). It was first published in July 1946 (volume 1). The editor-in-chief is A. Kawabata, until August 2010. The impact factor for "JPSJ" in 2009 is 2.572, according to Journal Citation Reports. Volume 1 consists of a single issue designated, on
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no more readable or relevant journal for scholars and analysts.’ Chester A. Crocker, ‘Teaching at a leading, professionally-oriented American IR school, I assign a variety of journal articles. "International Affairs" is the one I use most often.’ The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal has a 2015 impact factor of 1.532, ranking it 18th out of 86 journals in the category "International Relations". International Affairs (journal) International Affairs is a leading peer-reviewed academic journal of international relations. Since its founding in 1922 the journal has been based at Chatham House, the Royal
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Larry Diamond (Stanford University) and Marc F. Plattner (National Endowment for Democracy). The editors of the "Journal of Democracy" commission most articles but do consider unsolicited articles. The journal does not perform peer review. According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal has a 2015 impact factor of 1.425, ranking it 39th out of 163 journals in the category "Political Science". Journal of Democracy The Journal of Democracy is a quarterly academic journal established in 1990 and an official publication of the National Endowment for Democracy's International Forum for Democratic Studies. It covers the study of democracy, democratic regimes, and
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data. The calculation always uses two complete and known years of item counts, but for new titles one of the known counts is zero. Annuals and other irregular publications sometimes publish no items in a particular year, affecting the count. The impact factor relates to a specific time period; it is possible to calculate it for any desired period. For example, the "Journal Citation Reports" (JCR) also includes a five-year impact factor, which is calculated by dividing the number of citations to the journal in a given year by the number of articles published in that journal in the previous
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factor was 0.75. The impact factors for IJMS have increased steadily every year between 2006 and 2011 (0.679 in 2006; 0.75 in 2007; 0.978 in 2008; 1.387 in 2009; 2.279 in 2010 and 2.598 in 2011). Although the impact factors have declined slightly between 2011 and 2013, publications in IJMS increased from 631 to 1367 and the 2014 journal impact factor is 2.862. In 2015, IJMS ranked Q2 in the categories 'Biochemistry & Molecular Biology' and 'Chemistry, Multidisciplinary' according to the 2015 release of the Journal Citation Reports® Science Edition. According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal has a
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journal "The Bone & Joint Journal" (first published in 1948 as "The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery (British Volume)"). According to the "Journal Citation Reports", BJR received achieved a 2017 Impact Factor Impact Factor of 2.362. The journal is also indexed in MEDLINE. Bone & Joint Research Bone & Joint Research (BJR) is an orthopaedic journal covering the whole spectrum of the musculoskeletal sciences, published by The British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery, a registered charity in the UK (No. 209299). BJR is a gold open access journal and hence articles published in the journal are available
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Nayfeh, the editor-in-chief of the journal, retired from his academic post and resigned from his position with the journal following completion of the investigation. The journal is abstracted and indexed in Scopus and the Science Citation Index Expanded. In 2014 the journal had its impact factor suppressed due to anomalous stacked citation patterns. In 2016, the journal is included in the Journal Citation Reports and its impact factor becomes 1.643 Journal of Vibration and Control The Journal of Vibration and Control is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers all aspects of linear and nonlinear vibration phenomena and their control. It
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completely abandon the issue numbers and became a volume-only journal. Journal of Power Sources The Journal of Power Sources is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of electrochemical energy conversion (like fuel cells, batteries, supercapacitors, and photo-electrochemical cells). The current editors-in-chief is Stefano Passerini, According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 6.945 and a 5-year impact factor of 6.496. Until December 2009, the journal was published in many "small" volumes which contained typically 2 issues. In the years 2010 and 2011, the journal tried to adopt the "one volume per year" convention
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category "Surgery". The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (print: , online: ) is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering cardiothoracic surgery, cardiology, pulmonary medicine, and vascular disease published by Elsevier. It is the official journal of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery and the Western Thoracic Surgical Association. The journal was established in 1931 as the "Journal of Thoracic Surgery". The journal has the second highest impact factor of all cardiothoracic surgery journals. According to the "Journal Citation Reports", its 2017 impact factor is 4.880, ranking it 12th out of 198 journals
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The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (print: , online: ) is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering cardiothoracic surgery, cardiology, pulmonary medicine, and vascular disease published by Elsevier. It is the official journal of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery and the Western Thoracic Surgical Association. The journal was established in 1931 as the "Journal of Thoracic Surgery". The journal has the second highest impact factor of all cardiothoracic surgery journals. According to the "Journal Citation Reports", its 2017 impact factor is 4.880, ranking it 12th out of 198 journals in the
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into the English part of the "National Medical Journal of China" to become the "Chinese Medical Journal". The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal has a 2011 impact factor of 0.864. Its 2013 Impact Factor is 1.016. Chinese Medical Journal The Chinese Medical Journal is an official publication of Chinese Medical Association, co-published by Chinese Medical Association Publishing House and Wolters Kluwer Medknow. The journal publishes peer-reviewed English-language articles, covering technical and clinical studies related to health, as well as ethical and social issues in medical research. The China Medical Missionary Association
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scientific models and do research on telepathy and psychic healing, what is the purpose of "peer-review?"". The journal is abstracted and indexed in Current Contents/Clinical Medicine, Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed, Science Citation Index Expanded, and Scopus. According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal has a 2016 impact factor of 1.363. Explore: The Journal of Science & Healing Explore: The Journal of Science & Healing is a bimonthly peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal that publishes papers on alternative medicine. It was established in 2005 and is published by Elsevier. The executive editor is faith healing advocate Larry Dossey, and the co-editors-in-chief are hypnotherapist, acupuncturist,
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into question, given homeopathy's proven ineffectiveness and unscientific status. Elsevier's Vice President of Global Corporate Relations, Thomas Reller, has defended Elsevier's decision to publish the journal, saying that "We support debate around this topic". The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal had a 2017 impact factor of 1.524. The journal's impact factor for 2015 was suppressed because of excessive self-citations. Homeopathy (journal) Homeopathy is a peer-reviewed medical journal covering research, reviews, and debates on all aspects of homeopathy, a controversial form of alternative medicine. It is the official journal of the Luton-based
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Journal of Power Sources The Journal of Power Sources is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of electrochemical energy conversion (like fuel cells, batteries, supercapacitors, and photo-electrochemical cells). The current editors-in-chief is Stefano Passerini, According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 6.945 and a 5-year impact factor of 6.496. Until December 2009, the journal was published in many "small" volumes which contained typically 2 issues. In the years 2010 and 2011, the journal tried to adopt the "one volume per year" convention common outside Elsevier. Starting January 2012, however, it decided to
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#2 ranked journal in the medical informatics category (behind the Journal of Medical Internet Research). JMIR Serious Games received an impact factor in June 2018 of 2.226. Journal of Medical Internet Research The Journal of Medical Internet Research is a peer-reviewed open-access medical journal established in 1999 covering eHealth and "healthcare in the Internet age". The editor-in-chief is Gunther Eysenbach. According to the "Journal Citation Reports" the journal has a 2016 impact factor of 4.671, ranking it first out of 22 journals in the category "Medical Informatics" and 4th out of 90 journals in the category "Health Care Sciences &
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example being the online journals published by BioMed Central. With the advent of online publication, some health journals are transforming from traditional subscription-based and pay-per-view access to open access for some or all of their content. Like other scientific journals, many public health journals are ranked with an impact factor, linked to the probability of an article published in that journal being cited. It is currently accepted that a higher impact factor indicates a better journal quality, at least in some health disciplines. Journals with high impact factors according to the Journal Citation Reports in the category "Public, Environmental and
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Journal of Optics (IOP Publishing journal) The Journal of Optics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of modern and classical optics, experimental and theoretical studies, applications and instrumentation. It is the official journal of the European Optical Society and is published by IOP Publishing. The editor-in-chief is Nikolay I. Zheludev (University of Southampton). According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal has a 2013 impact factor of 2.010. The journal was established in 1912 as the "Revue Générale d’Optique et de Mécanique de Précision". Publication was suspended during the First World War and only resumed in 1921, when
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Current article abstracts can be viewed on PubMed, with links to the full text redirecting to the "Journal of Biological Rhythms" website for viewing. Older article texts can also be requested on ResearchGate. The journal also publishes special publication collections consisting of selected articles on a chosen topic. These collections can be viewed on the journal website. According to the "Journal Citation Reports", its 2015 impact factor is 2.824. Impact factor is the average number of citations per publication by a given journal in a year, and serves as an indicator of readership and relevance. Research Gate gives the journal
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PLOS Biology PLOS Biology is a monthly Peer reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of biology. Publication began on October 13, 2003. It was the first journal of the Public Library of Science. The editor-in-chief is Emma Ganley. In addition to research articles, the journal publishes magazine content aimed to be accessible to a broad audience. Article types in this section are: Essays, Unsolved Mysteries, Editorials, and Synopses. The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 9.163. The journal does not list this impact factor on its
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a 2016 journal impact factor of 4.778. However, that impact factor was based on a total of 9 "citable items" in 2014, as no articles were deemed "citable" in subsequent years, and in 2018 the journal was omitted from the 2017 "Journal Citation Reports". Neuropsychiatry (journal) Neuropsychiatry is a quarterly peer-reviewed open access medical journal covering research on neuropsychiatry. The journal was established in 2011 and originally published by Future Medicine with Wayne Goodman and F. Markus Leweke (Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany) serving as its founding editors-in-chief up to 2015. Under the Future Science imprint, the journal's
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years. Methods of Information in Medicine Methods of Information in Medicine is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research in medical informatics. It is an official journal of the International Medical Informatics Association, the European Federation for Medical Informatics, and the German Association for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology. It is the oldest and longest running journal in its field. The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal had a 2014 impact factor of 2.2. In 2015 the journal did not receive an impact factor as it was delisted because of citation stacking. The
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Methods of Information in Medicine Methods of Information in Medicine is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research in medical informatics. It is an official journal of the International Medical Informatics Association, the European Federation for Medical Informatics, and the German Association for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology. It is the oldest and longest running journal in its field. The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal had a 2014 impact factor of 2.2. In 2015 the journal did not receive an impact factor as it was delisted because of citation stacking. The 2016
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American Journal of Kidney Diseases The American Journal of Kidney Diseases (AJKD) is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering all aspects of nephrology. It is the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation and is published by Elsevier. The journal publishes original research, case reports, and educational articles such as narrative reviews and teaching cases. It is abstracted and indexed in PubMed/MEDLINE/Index Medicus. According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal has a 2016 impact factor of 7.62. The journal's current editor-in-chief is Harold I. Feldman (University of Pennsylvania). Since November 2011, the journal publishes a blog, "AJKD Blog", which
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Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies The Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies is an academic journal published by Routledge. According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal had a 2014 impact factor of 1.228, ranking it 4th out of 15 journals in the category "Ethnic Studies" and 12th out of 25 journals in the category "Demography". Its 2015 impact factor is 1.536. It was previously called "New Community". It was first published in 1971 as the quarterly journal of the Community Relations Commission, predecessor of the U.K.’s Commission for Racial Equality. Sheila Patterson edited New Community from 1971 until
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issue includes an array of global perspectives, as well as essays ...that clearly situate bioethical issues in their transnational context." The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal has a 2015 impact factor of 0.488, ranking it 30th out of 40 journals in the category "Women's Studies", and 38th out of 51 journals in the category "Ethics". International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal providing a forum in bioethics for feminist thought and debate. The journal (pronounced "I-Jay-Fab") is
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posts interviews with authors, commentaries, and educational material approximately twice per week. American Journal of Kidney Diseases The American Journal of Kidney Diseases (AJKD) is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering all aspects of nephrology. It is the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation and is published by Elsevier. The journal publishes original research, case reports, and educational articles such as narrative reviews and teaching cases. It is abstracted and indexed in PubMed/MEDLINE/Index Medicus. According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal has a 2016 impact factor of 7.62. The journal's current editor-in-chief is Harold I. Feldman (University of
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open access, also known as hybrid open access scheme. The journal is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, Biological Abstracts, Medline, and Excerpta Medica, as well as other more specialized indexes. According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal has a 2016 impact factor of 1.057 and a 5-year impact factor of 1.598. International Microbiology International Microbiology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Springer and the official journal of the Spanish Society for Microbiology. The journal publishes articles on all aspects of microbiology, including eukaryotic microorganisms, and aims to advance and disseminate research in the fields of basic and
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studies, and more. As of July 1, 2016, the journal is on Volume 87, Issue 3. The journal's current editors are Brian M. Kemp (Washington State University) and Ripan S. Malhi (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign). According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal has a 2014 impact factor of 0.857. For the year of 2014, the Eigenfactor, the rating of total importance of an academic journal, was 0.1. The journal has an Article Influence score of 0.5 for the year 2014. Article Influence is a ranking based on the Eigenfactor score, and is considered comparable to the Impact Factor score.
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According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal has a 2012 impact factor of 3.367. Key topics discussed in the journal are strategic resource allocation; organization structure; leadership; entrepreneurship and organizational purpose; methods and techniques for evaluating and understanding competitive, technological, social, and political environments; planning processes; and strategic decision processes. The "Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal" is a quarterly publication of the Strategic Management Society. It was established in 2007 and is published by Wiley-Blackwell. The editors-in-chief are Jay Barney, Mike Wright, Rajshree Agarwal, and G. T. Lumpkin. According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal has a 2012 impact factor
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at this time. The journal is published by Elsevier. The journal is abstracted and indexed in Applied Mechanics Reviews, Current Contents/Engineering, Computing & Technology, Current Contents/Physics, Chemical, & Earth Sciences, Compendex, Inspec, Mathematical Reviews, Scopus, and Zentralblatt MATH. According to the Journal Citation Reports, "Wave Motion" has a 2016 5 year impact factor of 1.704 and an impact factor of 1.575, ranking it 15th out of 31 journals in the category "acoustics", 71st out of 133 in the category "mechanics", and 32nd out of 79 in the category "physics, multidisciplinary". Wave Motion (journal) Wave Motion is a peer-reviewed scientific journal
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"Journal Citation Reports", the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 3.653. Biochemia Medica Biochemia Medica is a triannual peer-reviewed scientific journal covering biochemistry, clinical chemistry, and laboratory medicine. It was established in 1991 and is published by the Croatian Society of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine. In 2006, the existing editor-in-chief and editorial board were replaced, and the new editorial board redesigned the journal's entire format; soon afterward, the journal was indexed in both EMBASE and Scopus. The journal received its first impact factor from the "Journal Citation Reports" in 2010, based on articles published in 2009. The editor-in-chief
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to make decisions based on scientific information. "The American journal of Sports Medicine" is abstracted and indexed in, among other databases: SCOPUS, and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the "Journal Citation Reports", its 2014 impact factor is 4.362, ranking it 1 out of 72 journals in the category ‘Orthopedics’. and 6 out of 81 journals in the category ‘Sport Sciences’. The journal's 5-Year Impact Factor is currently listed at 5.084. American Journal of Sports Medicine American Journal of Sports Medicine is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of Sport Sciences. The journal's editor is
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Journal of Proteome Research The Journal of Proteome Research is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published since 2002 by the American Chemical Society. Its publication frequency switched from bimonthly to monthly in 2006. The current editor-in-chief is John R. Yates. The journal is abstracted and indexed in EBSCOhost, PubMed, Scopus, and the Web of Science. In 2013, "J. Proteome Res." had an impact factor of 5.001 as reported in the 2013 Journal Citation Reports by Thomson Reuters, ranking it 10th out of 75 journals in the category “Biochemical Research Methods”. The impact factor in 2015 was 4.173. Google scholar lists the
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Spain) and Tobias Schoenherr (Michigan State University, US). According to the "Journal Citation Reports", its 2016 impact factor is 3.339, and its 5-year impact factor is 4.211 (2016). International Journal of Operations & Production Management The International Journal of Operations and Production Management is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Emerald Group Publishing. It is the official journal of the European Operations Management Association and publishes "leading-edge, innovative research that has the potential to significantly advance the field of Operations and Supply Chain Management, theoretically and practically. Drawing on the experiences of both manufacturing and service industry sectors, in both
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Journal of Medicinal Chemistry The Journal of Medicinal Chemistry is a peer-reviewed medical journal covering research in medicinal chemistry. It is published by the American Chemical Society. It was established in 1959 as the "Journal of Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry" and obtained its current name in 1963. The editors-in-chief are Gunda I. Georg (University of Minnesota) and Shaomeng Wang (University of Michigan). They succeeded Philip S. Portoghese (University of Minnesota) in 2012. Portoghese had served as editor-in-chief from 1972-2011. According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal had a 2014 impact factor of 5.447, ranking it 3rd out of 59
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journals in the category "Chemistry, Medicinal". Journal of Medicinal Chemistry The Journal of Medicinal Chemistry is a peer-reviewed medical journal covering research in medicinal chemistry. It is published by the American Chemical Society. It was established in 1959 as the "Journal of Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry" and obtained its current name in 1963. The editors-in-chief are Gunda I. Georg (University of Minnesota) and Shaomeng Wang (University of Michigan). They succeeded Philip S. Portoghese (University of Minnesota) in 2012. Portoghese had served as editor-in-chief from 1972-2011. According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal had a 2014 impact factor of 5.447,
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all of whom are active scientists working in fields ranging from human genetics and neuroscience to biophysics and epidemiology. In September 2016, the journal announced that starting on 1 January 2017, it will introduce article processing charges of USD$2,500 for papers accepted for publication. The journal is abstracted and indexed in Medline, BIOSIS Previews, Chemical Abstracts Service, Science Citation Index Expanded, and Scopus. According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal has a 2016 impact factor of 7.725 (compared to 8.52 in 2013, 9.32 in 2014, 8.28 in 2015). The journal claims that it will not promote its impact factor.
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to the author to distribute, freely, as he or she saw fit. Authors do not assign copyright to the RAS or OUP, but are required to grant an exclusive licence to publish the article prior to its publication. The following persons have served as Editor-in-Chief (formerly titled Managing Editor or simply Editor): The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal has a 2012 impact factor of 5.521. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research in astronomy and astrophysics.
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George W. Comstock, and the celebration of notable anniversaries of schools of public health (University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health; Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine; Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health). AJE is currently ranked 4th in the field of epidemiology according to Google Scholar. It has an impact factor of 5.230 (as of 2014) and the 5-year impact factor is 5.632 according to Journal Citation Reports. This journal was founded in 1920 and originally named the "American Journal of Hygiene". In 1965, the journal acquired its current name – "American Journal of
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impact factor of 4.508. Annals of Behavioral Medicine Annals of Behavioral Medicine is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society of Behavioral Medicine. It publishes original research on behavioral medicine and the integration of biological, psychosocial, and behavioral factors and principles. The editor-in-chief is Kevin Masters, PhD, a professor at the University of Colorado Denver. It is the flagship journal of the Society of Behavioral Medicine and was established in 1979. The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal has a 2016 impact factor of
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it "reserves the right to change its online access policy at any time." Homology, Homotopy and Applications Homology, Homotopy and Applications is a peer-reviewed delayed open access mathematics journal published by International Press. It was established in 1999 and covers research on algebraic topology. The journal is indexed by "Mathematical Reviews" and "Zentralblatt MATH". Its 2011 MCQ was 0.55, and according to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal had a 2015 impact factor of 0.486, with a 5-year impact factor for that year of 0.654. Formerly completely open access, the journal has switched to a delayed open access model. Volume
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Homology, Homotopy and Applications Homology, Homotopy and Applications is a peer-reviewed delayed open access mathematics journal published by International Press. It was established in 1999 and covers research on algebraic topology. The journal is indexed by "Mathematical Reviews" and "Zentralblatt MATH". Its 2011 MCQ was 0.55, and according to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal had a 2015 impact factor of 0.486, with a 5-year impact factor for that year of 0.654. Formerly completely open access, the journal has switched to a delayed open access model. Volume are made open access 4 years after their issue year. International Press says
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appoint associate editors. According to the Editor-in-Chief of "JGR-Space Physics", "With the switch to Wiley, the separate sections of JGR were given distinct ISSN numbers. This means that in a couple of years, each section of JGR will have its own Impact Factor." The journal is indexed by GEOBASE, GeoRef, Scopus, PubMed, Web of Science, and several CSA indexes. It published 2995 articles in 2010. According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal has a 2010 impact factor of 3.303, ranking it 15th out of 165 journals in the category "Geosciences, Multidisciplinary". "Journal of Geophysical Research—Atmospheres" was also the 6th
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Journal of Monetary Economics The Journal of Monetary Economics is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on macroeconomics and monetary economics. It is published by Elsevier and was established in October 1973 by Karl Brunner and Charles I. Plosser. Beginning in 2002, it was merged with the Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy. The latter series was established in 1976 and had been published independently, originally by the North-Holland Publishing Company, now an imprint of Elsevier. According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal has a 2014 impact factor of 1.726. Since 2014, its editors are Urban Jermann and Yuriy
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Turpion Ltd, and the Russian Academy of Sciences. The volume numbering was also changed and now follows the Russian original journal "Matematicheskii Sbornik". As of 2012, the impact factor of "Sb. Math." in Journal Citation Reports is 0.595, giving it a rank of 136 among 296 mathematics journals. Alternatively, mathnet.ru calculates its impact factor for 2012 as 0.912. Matematicheskii Sbornik Matematicheskii Sbornik (, abbreviated "Mat. Sb.") is a peer reviewed Russian mathematical journal founded by the Moscow Mathematical Society in 1866. It is the oldest successful Russian mathematical journal. The English translation is "Sbornik: Mathematics". It is also sometimes cited
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studies, as well as opinions and debates on topical issues. "Human Reproduction Update" is a bimonthly review journal. According to the Journal Citation Reports its 2014 impact factor is 10.165, ranking it first in the categories "Obstetrics and Gynaecology" (out of 79) and "Reproductive Biology" (out of 30). "Molecular Human Reproduction" focuses on molecular aspects of reproductive biology and is published monthly. According to the Journal Citation Reports its 2012 impact factor is 4.542, ranking it 7th out of 41 in the category "Developmental Biology" and 3rd out of 28 in the category "Reproductive Biology". All three journals are abstracted
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1891. In 1891, the Signal Office's meteorological responsibilities were transferred to the Weather Bureau under the United States Department of Agriculture. The Weather Bureau published the journal until 1970 when the Bureau became part of the newly formed National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which published it until the end of 1973. Since 1974, it has been published by the American Meteorological Society. The journal is abstracted and indexed in Current Contents/Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences and the Science Citation Index. According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal has a 2012 impact factor of 2.758. In 2016, the impact factor
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helps people to learn about the different subjects on which the evaluation is about. All of the articles are published in order to educate future generation and to utilise relevant teaching tools. Thus, the "American Journal of Evaluation" follows the SAGE Publications mentality. According to the "Journal Citation Reports", for its first year of publication, in 2009, the "American Journal of Evaluation" had an impact factor of 0.942. It reached 1.16 in 2011 whereas in 201 the journal was ranking 33 out of 98 journals in the category "Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary" with an impact factor of 0.965. Recent figures show
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1973. The 'Tennessee Orange,' cover color was picked by Igor Alexeff, Professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Published bimonthly, its scope includes all aspects of the theory and application of plasma science, and regularly features "Special issues" (e.g. eight in 2004). Between 2000-2004, the journal was ranked No.10 for impact factor in "Physics - Fluids & Plasmas" by Thomson. The journal encourages papers on the imaging of body structures, usually "in situ", rather than microscopic biological entities. In the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) from Thomson, which ranks journals by their impact factor, in 2005, the journal was ranked: The journal is
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"Journal Citation Reports", the journal has a 2014 impact factor of 2.057. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science is a peer-reviewed academic journal on ocean sciences, with a focus on coastal regions ranging from estuaries up to the edge of the continental shelf. It's published by Elsevier on behalf of the Estuarine Coastal Sciences Association and edited by T.S. Bianchi, M. Elliott, I. Valiela, and E. Wolanski. The journal began in 1973 as "Estuarine and Coastal Marine Science" before the name was changed in 1981. The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Science Citation Index,
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The American Naturalist The American Naturalist is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal that was established in 1867. It is published by the University of Chicago Press on behalf of the American Society of Naturalists. The journal covers research in ecology, evolutionary biology, population, and integrative biology. , the editor-in-chief is Daniel I. Bolnick. According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal had a 2017 impact factor of 4.265, ranking it 26th out of 158 journals in the category "Ecology" and 11th out of 49 journals in the category "Evolutionary Biology". The journal was founded by Alpheus Hyatt, Edward S. Morse,
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Medicus, I B Z - Internationale Bibliographie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Zeitschriftenliteratur, Internationale Bibliographie der Rezensionen Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlicher Literatur, MEDLINE, PsycINFO, PubMed, Scopus, and Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal has a 2016 impact factor of 3.251, ranking it 12th out of 84 journals in the category "Psychology, Experimental". Emotion (journal) Emotion is a peer-reviewed scientific journal, which, as its title states, publishes articles relating to the study of emotion. It is one of several psychology journals published by the American Psychological Association. It was established by founding co-editors-in-chief Richard Davidson and Klaus
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Aging Cell Aging Cell is a peer-reviewed scientific journal and an official journal of the Anatomical Society. It is published on their behalf by John Wiley & Sons. It was established in 2002 and the editors-in-chief are Peter Adams (University of Glasgow), Adam Antebi (Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing), Ana Maria Cuervo (Albert Einstein College of Medicine), Brian Kennedy (Buck Institute for Research on Aging), and John Sedivy (Brown University). According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal had a 2014 impact factor of 6.34. In 2016, it had an impact factor of 6.71, ranking 2/49 (Geriatrics &
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and space research is also part of the journal's scope. The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal has a 2011 impact factor of 2.344. The 2017 impact factor is 1.820. Planetary and Space Science Planetary and Space Science, published 15 times per year, is a peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 1959. It publishes original research articles along with short communications (letters). The main topic is solar system processes which encompasses multiple areas of the natural sciences. Numerical simulations of solar system processes are also conducted at ground-based facilities or on-board space platforms.
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name was adopted in 2009. The current Editor-in-Chief is Wayne Bryden (University of Queensland). The journal is abstracted and indexed in AgriBiotech, Agricola, Australian Bibliography of Agriculture, Elsevier BIOBASE, BIOSIS, CAB Abstracts, Current Contents (Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences), Food Science and Technology Abstracts, Institute for Scientific Information Moscow, Science Citation Index, Scopus and TEEAL. According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal had an impact factor in 2015 of 0.902, and a 2016/2017 impact factor of 1.371. Animal Production Science Animal Production Science is an international peer-reviewed scientific journal for agriculture and animal science and published by CSIRO Publishing.
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indexing agency. New journals, which are indexed from their first published issue, will receive an impact factor after two years of indexing; in this case, the citations to the year prior to Volume 1, and the number of articles published in the year prior to Volume 1, are known zero values. Journals that are indexed starting with a volume other than the first volume will not get an impact factor until they have been indexed for three years. Occasionally, Journal Citation Reports assigns an impact factor to new journals with less than two years of indexing, based on partial citation
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In an interview, Howard Hughes Medical Institute then President Robert Tjian reflected on "eLife" and noted, "The other big thing is, we want to kill the journal impact factor. We tried to prevent people who do the impact factors from giving us one. They gave us one anyway a year earlier than they should have. Don't ask me what it is because I truly don't want to know and don't care." The "eLife Podcast" is produced by BBC Radio presenter and University of Cambridge consultant virologist Chris Smith of "The Naked Scientists". Most research articles published in the journal include
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articles which generally are cited more than research reports. Thus review articles can raise the impact factor of the journal and review journals will therefore often have the highest impact factors in their respective fields. Some journal editors set their submissions policy to "by invitation only" to invite exclusively senior scientists to publish "citable" papers to increase the journal impact factor. Journals may also attempt to limit the number of "citable items"—i.e., the denominator of the impact factor equation—either by declining to publish articles that are unlikely to be cited (such as case reports in medical journals) or by altering
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an official impact factor. According to an unofficial calculation in 2007, it reached an impact factor of 20.1. The journal was discontinued in April 2010 and merged with the existing journal "BMC Biology". Journal of Biology The Journal of Biology was a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by BioMed Central. It was established in 2002 with the aim to provide an alternative to biology journals with high-impact factor such as "Nature", "Science", and "Cell". Because of stringent selection criteria, it published only a few research articles per year, only four in 2007, for example, with the rest being comment and short
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Journal of Family Theory and Review The Journal of Family Theory and Review is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the National Council on Family Relations. Established in 2009 by founding editor Robert M. Milardo, the current editor-in-chief is Libby Balter Blume (University of Detroit Mercy). The Journal of Family Theory & Review has been accepted for its initial Web of Science ranking and impact factor in the Social Sciences Citation Index. The first impact factor will be reported in 2016, a two-year impact factor based on the journal's 2013 and 2014 volumes. JFTR publishes
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other disciplines. The impact factor (IF) of a journal is a measure of how often, on average, papers published in the journal are cited in other academic publications. The IF was devised in the 1950s as a simple way to rank scientific journals. Today, in some disciplines, the prestige of a publication is determined largely by its impact factor. Use of the impact factor is not necessarily undesirable as it can reasonably incentivise editors to improve their journal through the publication of good science. Two well-known academic journals, "Nature" and "Science", had impact factors of 36 and 31 respectively. A
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given year, the impact factor of a journal is the number of citations, received in that year, of articles published in that journal during the two preceding years, divided by the total number of articles published in that journal during the two preceding years: formula_1 For example, "Nature" had an impact factor of 41.456 in 2014: formula_2 This means that, on average, its papers published in 2012 and 2013 received roughly 41 citations each in 2014. Note that 2014 impact factors are reported in 2015; they cannot be calculated until all of the 2014 publications have been processed by the
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Algebra i Logika Algebra i Logika (English: "Algebra and Logic") is a peer-reviewed Russian mathematical journal founded in 1962 by Anatoly Ivanovich Malcev, published by the Siberian Fund for Algebra and Logic at Novosibirsk State University. An English translation of the journal is published by Springer-Verlag as Algebra and Logic since 1968. It published papers presented at the meetings of the "Algebra and Logic" seminar at the Novosibirsk State University. The journal is edited by academician Yury Yershov. The journal is reviewed cover-to-cover in "Mathematical Reviews" and "Zentralblatt MATH". The 2012 impact factor is 0.493. "Algebra i Logika" is indexed
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the editor may refer to either class. Another less insidious tactic journals employ is to publish a large portion of its papers, or at least the papers expected to be highly cited, early in the calendar year. This gives those papers more time to gather citations. Several methods, not necessarily with nefarious intent, exist for a journal to cite articles in the same journal which will increase the journal's impact factor. Beyond editorial policies that may skew the impact factor, journals can take overt steps to game the system. For example, in 2007, the specialist journal "Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica",
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filesystem data. Filesystem writes are preceded by metadata updates to the journal, which can be a cause of disk contention. Under most workloads, the level of contention caused is too low to impact performance, but random-write heavy workloads, such as those seen on busy database servers, can suffer from less than optimal performance as a result of this I/O contention. An additional factor that may increase the severity of this problem is that writes to the journal are committed synchronously because they must complete successfully before the associated write operation can begin. Where optimum filesystem performance is required, XFS provides
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is potentially misleading if used to gauge the typical impact of articles in the journal rather than the overall impact of the journal itself. For example, about 90% of "Nature"s 2004 impact factor was based on only a quarter of its publications, and thus the actual number of citations for a single article in the journal is in most cases much lower than the mean number of citations across articles. Furthermore, the strength of the relationship between impact factors of journals and the citation rates of the papers therein has been steadily decreasing since articles began to be available digitally.
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general literature citation when one or more of the open-source SHELX programs (and the Bruker AXS version SHELXTL) are employed in the course of a crystal-structure determination". This article received more than 6,600 citations. As a consequence, the impact factor of the journal "Acta Crystallographica Section A" rose from 2.051 in 2008 to 49.926 in 2009, more than "Nature" (at 31.434) and "Science" (at 28.103). The second-most cited article in "Acta Crystallographica Section A" in 2008 only had 28 citations. Also, impact factor is a journal metric and should not be used to assess individual researchers or institutions. Journal rankings
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and abstracted in the following databases: Algebra i Logika Algebra i Logika (English: "Algebra and Logic") is a peer-reviewed Russian mathematical journal founded in 1962 by Anatoly Ivanovich Malcev, published by the Siberian Fund for Algebra and Logic at Novosibirsk State University. An English translation of the journal is published by Springer-Verlag as Algebra and Logic since 1968. It published papers presented at the meetings of the "Algebra and Logic" seminar at the Novosibirsk State University. The journal is edited by academician Yury Yershov. The journal is reviewed cover-to-cover in "Mathematical Reviews" and "Zentralblatt MATH". The 2012 impact factor is
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constructed based solely on impact factors only moderately correlate with those compiled from the results of expert surveys. A.E. Cawkell, sometime Director of Research at the Institute for Scientific Information remarked that the Science Citation Index (SCI), on which the impact factor is based, "would work perfectly if every author meticulously cited only the earlier work related to his theme; if it covered every scientific journal published anywhere in the world; and if it were free from economic constraints." A journal can adopt editorial policies to increase its impact factor. For example, journals may publish a larger percentage of review
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the impact factor as a measure of journal importance and the effect of policies that editors may adopt to boost their impact factor (perhaps to the detriment of readers and writers). Other criticism focuses on the effect of the impact factor on behavior of scholars, editors and other stakeholders. Others have made more general criticisms, arguing that emphasis on impact factor results from negative influence of neoliberal policies on academia claiming that what is needed is not just replacement of the impact factor with more sophisticated metrics for science publications but also discussion on the social value of research assessment
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Brian Butterworth, Bernard Comrie, Östen Dahl, Norbert Dittmar, Flip Droste, Jaap van Marle, and Jürgen Weissenborn. De facto, Brian Butterworth was editor-in-chief between 1979 and 1982. From 1982 through 2005, the editor was Wolfgang Klein, who was succeeded by Johan van der Auwera. The journal is abstracted and indexed in: The journal has a Thomson Reuters 2015 impact factor of 0.763 and a 5-year impact factor of 0.872. Linguistics (journal) Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences is a peer-reviewed academic journal of general linguistics published by De Gruyter Mouton. The journal publishes both articles and book reviews. It
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are those in which it is most difficult to have an article accepted, and these are the journals that have a high impact factor. Most of these journals existed long before the impact factor was devised. The use of impact factor as a measure of quality is widespread because it fits well with the opinion we have in each field of the best journals in our specialty...In conclusion, prestigious journals publish papers of high level. Therefore, their impact factor is high, and not the contrary.As impact factors is a journal-level metric, rather than an article or individual level metric, this
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that the impact factor was reaching 1.339 in 2017. The impact factor is a measure of the frequency with which the "average article" in a journal has been cited in a particular year or period. American Journal of Evaluation The American Journal of Evaluation is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers research on methods of evaluation. It is a quarterly journal and its first publication was in 1981. The editor-in-chief, Sharon F. Rallis, serves as the Dwight W. Allen Distinguished Professor in Educational Policy and Reform in the Department of Educational Policy, Research & Administration in the College of Education,
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a 2015/2016 Impact Factor of 2.38. According to Sage Publications, the journal has a 2015 Five-Year Impact Factor of 3.167, ranking it 19th out of 86 journals under the Biology category, and 29th out of 83 journals under the Physiology category. Journal of Biological Rhythms Journal of Biological Rhythms is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers focused on chronobiology, or any aspect of biological rhythms with a special emphasis on seasonal and circadian rhythms. However, papers on various other rhythms are also published in the "Journal of Biological Rhythms". These publications can be primary reports of new discoveries, reviews,
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Helvetica Chimica Acta Helvetica Chimica Acta is a scientific journal founded by the Swiss Chemical Society. It is published by John Wiley & Sons, both in print and online. It publishes papers in all areas of chemistry. This journal has a 2014 impact factor of 1.138. History August 6, 1901: Founding of The Swiss Chemical Society (SCG) 1911: IUPAC refused SCG as a member, no own journal September 11, 1917: SCG founded HCA 1917 – 1948: First Editor-in-Chief: Friedrich Fichter (1869 – 1952) Spring 1918: Fasciculus I of Volumen I of HCA was issued 1948 – 1971: Emile Cherbuliez (1891
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respected journal in a sub-field, such as cognitive science, might have an impact factor of around 3. However, impact factors have also become a source of increasing controversy. As early as 1999, in a landmark essay "Scientific Communication — A Vanity Fair?", Georg Franck criticized citation counts as creating a marketplace where "success in science is rewarded with attention". In particular, he warned of a future "shadow market" where journal editors might inflate citation counts by requiring spurious references. In 2005, an article in "The Chronicle of Higher Education" called it "the number that's devouring science". When an author submits
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of 0.592, ranking it 37th out of 68 journals in the category "Anthropology" and 14th out of 44 in the category Area Studies. By 2011 the figures were an impact factor of 0.604, 11th out of 66 Area Studies journals and 42nd out of 79 journals in the Anthropology category. In 2012 the Impact Factor was 0.855 ranking the journal in the top ten of the Area Studies category. Africa remains the top anthropology/ethnography journal in Area Studies and the 3rd African studies journal in the same category. Africa (journal) Africa is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Cambridge
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use is controversial. Garfield agrees with Hoeffel, but warns about the "misuse in evaluating individuals" because there is "a wide variation [of citations] from article to article within a single journal". Some companies are producing false impact factors. According to an article published in the United States National Library of Medicine, these include Global Impact Factor (GIF), Citefactor, and Universal Impact Factor (UIF). Numerous criticisms have been made regarding the use of impact factors. For one thing, the impact factor might not be consistently reproduced in an independent audit. There is also a more general debate on the validity of
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2009 impact factor of 0.552, but it was not included in the 2010 edition. The journal reappeared from the 2011 edition onwards. In 2016 its impact factor was 0.831. Knowledge Organization (journal) "Knowledge Organization: International Journal devoted to Concept Theory, Classification, Indexing, and Knowledge Representation" is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering concept theory, classification, indexing, and knowledge representation. It is the official journal of the International Society for Knowledge Organization and was published under the title "International Classification" between 1974 and 1993. It was established by Ingetraut Dahlberg. "Knowledge Organization" is abstracted and or indexed in Current Contents/Social &
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SCOPUS and others. As of 2017, the journal had an impact factor of 0.519, ranking 108 out of 143 in Sociology. The journal is available without charge to individuals who do not have access to institutional networks. Sociological Research Online Sociological Research Online is a sociological journal, published quarterly (March, June, September, December) since March 1996. It is an online-only, peer reviewed journal. It was originally published by a consortium of the British Sociological Association, SAGE Publications, the University of Surrey and the University of Stirling. In 2017, the University of Surrey and the University of Stirling stepped down and
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published new guidelines to evaluate only articles and no bibliometric information on candidates to be evaluated in all decisions concerning "performance-based funding allocations, postdoctoral qualifications, appointments, or reviewing funding proposals, [where] increasing importance has been given to numerical indicators such as the h-index and the impact factor". This decision follows similar ones of the National Science Foundation (US) and the Research Assessment Exercise (UK). In response to growing concerns over the inappropriate use of journal impact factors in evaluating scientific outputs and scientists themselves, the American Society for Cell Biology together with a group of editors and publishers of scholarly
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(see figure). Journals with a "low" impact (e.g. PLOS One, impact factor 3.1) publish many papers that are cited 0 to 5 times but few highly cited articles. JIFs are often mis-interpreted as a measure for journal quality or even article quality. The JIF is a journal-level metric, not an article-level metric, hence its use to determine the impact of a single article is statistically invalid. Citation distribution is skewed for journals because a very small number of articles is driving the vast majority of citations (see figure). Therefore, some journals have stopped publicizing their impact factor, e.g. the journals
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cited number of journal, reaction index, mean citing rate, and non-self-cited rate. The impact factor of Chinese scientific journals is relatively low. In 1999, the top-cited journal—"Mining and Geologica Sinica"—had an impact factor of 1.487, and the average number of citations per article published in the Chinese journals covered by Science Citation Index was 0.326. One reason for the low impact factor is that Chinese scientists tend to use relatively few references in their publications (average, 6.6 references per article). A second reason is that scientists in China, like those in other countries, prefer to publish their best papers in
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journal has a 2015 impact factor of 2.041, whereas "Gene Expression Patterns" has an impact factor of 1.485. Mechanisms of Development Mechanisms of Development is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of developmental biology. It is the official journal of the International Society of Developmental Biologists and is published by Elsevier. The journal was established in 1972 as Cell Differentiation and was renamed Cell Differentiation and Development in 1988. It acquired its current name in December 1990. The editor-in-chief is D. Wilkinson (National Institute for Medical Research). A separate section of the journal, Gene Expression Patterns, covers research on
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index and its impact factor. Among the 17 journals they analyzed, the "New England Journal of Medicine" had the highest retraction index. The "New England Journal of Medicine" responded to the Feng and Casadevall editorial with a statement criticizing it for only considering papers with abstracts. The statement argued that because most articles published in each issue of the "Journal" do not have abstracts, the journal's retraction index appeared artificially high. They did not identify a mechanism for why this relationship might exist, but suggested that it might be because researchers are more willing to cut corners to get a
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of journals in which they publish (the 'impact factor' is the ratio of papers cited from a journal to papers published in that journal) - considered an inappropriate measure of research quality, as the impact factor of a journal is not necessarily related to the relevance of that journal to a given field. Other critics, especially those among the Group of Eight, saw these reforms as "dumbing down" higher education, as college diploma students became university graduates overnight. The traditional universities were forced to compete for research funds with the newly designated and amalgamated universities, although they still continue to
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to 400 words in the journal. As of 2009, three series are published under this general title. "Statistics in Society" () is published quarterly. . Its 2015 impact factor is 1.6. Past and current editors: "Statistical Methodology" () is published six times a year. Its 2015 impact factor is 5.7. Starting in 1934, it was originally called "Supplement to the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society" (), and in 1948 was changed to "Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B (Methodological)" (), before being changed to its current name in 1998. In a 2003 survey of statisticians, Series B
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the category "Psychology, Experimental." The 2017 impact factor was 1.860. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the American Psychological Association. The journal covers research on the psychology of the production and appreciation of the arts and all aspects of creative endeavor. The current editors-in-chief are Roni Reiter-Palmon and Pablo Tinio. The founding co-editors of the journal were Jeffrey Smith, Lisa Smith, and James C. Kaufman. The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Social Science Citation Index. The journal has a 5-Year Impact Factor
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to inflate the journal's impact factor. A survey published in 2012 indicates that coercive citation has been experienced by one in five researchers working in economics, sociology, psychology, and multiple business disciplines, and it is more common in business and in journals with a lower impact factor. However, cases of coercive citation have occasionally been reported for other disciplines. Because "the impact factor is not always a reliable instrument", in November 2007 the European Association of Science Editors (EASE) issued an official statement recommending "that journal impact factors are used only—and cautiously—for measuring and comparing the influence of entire journals,
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journal has a 2017 impact factor of 8.173. Biosensors and Bioelectronics Biosensors and Bioelectronics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier. It covers research on biosensors and bioelectronics. The journal was established in 1985 as "Biosensors" and obtained its current name in 1991. The journal was established by I. John Higgins (Cranfield University), W. Geoff Potter (Science and Engineering Research Council) and Anthony P.F. Turner (Cranfield University, later Linköping University), who became editor-in-chief, a position which he continues to hold today. In 1990, the journal was complemented with an associated conference, Biosensors 90. The World Congress on Biosensors continues
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Reports", the journal has a 2015 impact factor of 5.384. Past editors-in-chief in order of succession have been: Management Information Systems Quarterly Management Information Systems Quarterly is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers research in management information systems and information technology. It was established in 1977 and is considered a major periodical in the information systems industry. An official journal of the Association for Information Systems, it is published by the Management Information Systems Research Center at the University of Minnesota. The current editor-in-chief is Dr. Arun Rai of Georgia State University. The journal had the highest impact factor
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Colloid and Polymer Science Colloid and Polymer Science is a peer-reviewed scientific journal which publishes in the field of colloid and polymer science and its interdisciplinary interactions. The journal is published by Springer Science+Business Media. It was first published in 1906. "Colloid and Polymer Science" had a 2013 impact factor of 2.430, whereas 2015 the impact factor was 1.890. The journal is ranked 28th out of 73 in the subject category "Polymer Science" and 61st out of 113 in "Physical Chemistry". The editors in chief of the journal are C.M. Papadakis (TU Munich) and A. Schmidt (U Köln), and chief
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advisory editor is F. Kremer (University Leipzig). Colloid and Polymer Science Colloid and Polymer Science is a peer-reviewed scientific journal which publishes in the field of colloid and polymer science and its interdisciplinary interactions. The journal is published by Springer Science+Business Media. It was first published in 1906. "Colloid and Polymer Science" had a 2013 impact factor of 2.430, whereas 2015 the impact factor was 1.890. The journal is ranked 28th out of 73 in the subject category "Polymer Science" and 61st out of 113 in "Physical Chemistry". The editors in chief of the journal are C.M. Papadakis (TU Munich)
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