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Nature journals' impact factors for 2008

Thomson Reuters have just announced the 2008 Impact Factors. Nature is the top journal in the multidisciplinary science category by all Thomson Reuters' new metrics: 5 year Impact Factor, Eigenfactor and article influence score. It is also the top of all journals in the Journal of Citation Reports (Thomson Reuters, 2009) listing (n=6,598) by Eigenfactor score. Here are the 2008 Impact Factors for the Nature journals that publish primary research:

Nature 31.434
Nature Biotechnology 22.297
Nature Cell Biology 17.774
Nature Chemical Biology 14.612
Nature Chemistry N/A
Nature Genetics 30.259
Nature Geoscience N/A
Nature Immunology 25.113
Nature Medicine 27.553
Nature Materials 23.132
Nature Methods 13.651
Nature Neuroscience 14.164
Nature Nanotechnology 20.571
Nature Photonics 24.982
Nature Physics 16.821
Nature Struct Molec Biol. 10.987

Posted by Maxine Clarke on June 24, 2009
Categories: Citation analysis, Quality measures | | Comments (1)

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Looking at that, I think you should start up a Nature Negative Results. Just to see what happens.

Posted by: Bob O'H | June 24, 2009 09:45 AM

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