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