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Impact Factor confirms Nature is top research journal
Those who think that self-publishing/sending out a newsletter with dinosaur
names is just as good as publishing one's papers in a journal should read
the following.
Mary
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8/14/2009 1:39:52 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time
Nature.Publishing.Group@ealert.nature.com
Impact Factor confirms Nature is top research journal
Journal is highest-ranked multidisciplinary science title once again
Nature maintains its position as the number one weekly science journal,
with a new Impact Factor of 31.434*.
Up from 28.751 last year, the new Impact Factor places Nature ahead
of Science (28.103) and Cell (31.253), according to the 2008 Journal
Citation Report (JCR). Nature also has the highest Eigenfactor; an
alternative measure of journal impact, of all 6598 journals included
the 2008 JCR.
The impact factor is a measure of the frequency with which the average
article in a journal has been cited in a particular year. The impact
factor helps to evaluate a journal's relative importance, especially
when compared with others in the same field.
In a separate indicator of excellence, Nature has also been named
'journal of the centuryâ by the BioMedical & Life Sciences Division
(DBIO) of the Special Libraries Association (SLA). Voted for by DBIO's
686 members, the award was given to celebrate SLAâs Centennial and
recognizes the most influential journal of the last 100 years
(1909-2009).
*2008 Journal Citation Report (Thomson Reuters, 2009)
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