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[This post is part of an ongoing series about impact factors. See Impact Factor Boxing 2012 for the latest figures.]
Well it’s that time again. The annual sweaty fist-fight for supremacy between the scientific journals, as measured by impact factors, is upon us. Much ink (virtual and actual) has been spilt on the subject of impact factors, which we won’t add to here, other than to say:
Hey look, the “European” journals might be catching up with the “American” ones. [1]
So, love them, loathe them, use them, abuse them, ignore them or obsess over them… here’s a tiny selection of the 10,196 journals that are tracked in Journal Citation Reports (JCR) ordered by increasing impact.
WARNING: Abusing these figures can seriously damage your Science – you have been warned! (normal caveats apply)
| Journal | 2010 data from isiknowledge.com/JCR | Eigenfactor™ Metrics | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total Cites | Impact Factor | 5-Year Impact Factor | Immediacy Index | Articles | Cited Half-life | Eigenfactor™ Score | Article Influence™ Score | |
| The Naval Architect* | 16 | 0.005 | 0.004 | 0.005 | 189 | 0.00002 | 0.001 | |
| BMC Bioinformatics | 12653 | 3.028 | 3.786 | 0.475 | 690 | 3.9 | 0.08086 | 1.495 |
| PLoS ONE | 42795 | 4.411 | 4.610 | 0.515 | 6714 | 2.1 | 0.32121 | 1.943 |
| OUP Bioinformatics | 40659 | 4.877 | 6.325 | 0.707 | 700 | 5.7 | 0.17973 | 2.649 |
| PLoS Computational Biololgy | 6849 | 5.515 | 6.251 | 0.727 | 406 | 2.8 | 0.06075 | 2.984 |
| Genome Biology | 14194 | 6.885 | 7.353 | 1.295 | 173 | 4.9 | 0.07688 | 3.585 |
| Nucleic Acids Research | 100444 | 7.836 | 7.314 | 1.755 | 1101 | 7.0 | 0.32867 | 3.016 |
| Briefings in Bioinformatics | 2886 | 9.283 | 7.395 | 1.204 | 49 | 5.8 | 0.01013 | 2.737 |
| PLoS Biology | 18453 | 12.469 | 14.375 | 2.706 | 214 | 4.1 | 0.16084 | 8.225 |
| Science | 469704 | 31.364 | 31.769 | 6.789 | 862 | 9.0 | 1.46485 | 16.859 |
| Nature | 511145 | 36.101 | 35.241 | 8.791 | 862 | 9.1 | 1.74466 | 19.334 |
| New England Journal of Medicine | 227674 | 53.484 | 52.362 | 10.675 | 345 | 7.5 | 0.69167 | 21.366 |
| CA – A Cancer Journal for Clinicians ** | 9801 | 94.262 | 70.216 | 8.667 | 18 | 3.8 | 0.04923 | 24.782 |
* The Naval Architect is included here for reference as it has the lowest non-zero impact factor of any science journal. A rather dubious honour…
** The Cancer Journal for Clinicians is the highest ranked journal in science, is included here for reference.
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References
- Karageorgopoulos, D., Lamnatou, V., Sardi, T., Gkegkes, I., & Falagas, M. (2011). Temporal Trends in the Impact Factor of European versus USA Biomedical Journals PLoS ONE, 6 (2) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016300
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