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Scientific Journals in China: Quality or Quantity

October 12th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Academic Publishing

A latest acticle from Nature News discussed the status of the China’s scientific journals published in Chinese language. The dilemma between journal quantity and quality may be resolved by the switch of the journals from Chinse language to English to compete on an international scale, and finally, to enhance the journal reputation and receive broader [...]

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Rocket-jumping of Cell Research Impact Factor

June 18th, 2010 · 11 Comments · Academic Publishing

Today, the latest Imfact Factor for scientific journals has been released out by Thomson Reuters’s JCR report. As China’s leading journal in the life sciences, Cell Research harvested its credit 8.151. A Rocket-jumping from  around 5.
Cell Research is run by Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology in China, Dr. Dangsheng Li as chief editor, previous [...]

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PLoS ONE Impact Factor Estimating

June 2nd, 2010 · 18 Comments · Academic Publishing

After the open access journal PLoS ONE being indexed by Web of Science at the begin of 2010, PLoS ONE will harvest a full report of citation metrics from 2009 Journal Citation Reports®, although PLoS Says NO to journal impact factor and “focus efforts on more sophisticated, flexible and meaningful measures”.
Nevertheless, its journal impact factor [...]

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JCR ISI Journal Impact Factor 2010 Coming

June 2nd, 2010 · 43 Comments · Academic Publishing

The latest JCR ISI Journal Impact Factor 2010 (actually the Impact Factor 2009) is coming during June.
The journal Impact Factor 2010 is based on the previous two-year average citations per published research paper.
Incoming search terms:jcr impact factor 20102010 JCRimpact factor jcr 2010JCR-2010-Impact-Factorimpact factor 2010 jcrimpact factor isi 2010impact factor 2010 isiISI IF 2010isi 2010 impact [...]

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PubAlert: Stay Alerted to Latest Research Publications for Free

March 29th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Academic Publishing

PubAlert is initially produced for my convenience, mainly covering journals in the developmental biology field. Still it’s publicly accessible, for you!
What’s PubAlert all about?
PubAlert ( http://pub.genedog.org/ )is a free and non-profit online aggregator service that functions to track the scientific journals and bring together the up-to-date research articles all into one channel. So you can [...]

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How To Check The Impact Factor of your Favorite Scientific Journals

March 16th, 2010 · 133 Comments · Academic Publishing

There are some readers asking, “How do I find the impact factor for a journal?”…hmmm…Before answering this issue, you should be noticed that, this blog DONOT distribute the impact factor list in any format (pdf, excel/xls, word/doc, etc).
However, you can check information on impact factor of your favorite scientific journals in the following ways:

Check ISI [...]

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PLoS Says NO to Journal Impact Factor

July 30th, 2009 · 22 Comments · Academic Publishing

The simple and direct measurement of scientific publications is assessed traditionally by the journal impact factor in terms of the citation analysis of the average performance of the papers published in the journal. The journal impact factor, with the latest 2008 IF list released last month, is relatively an appropriate impact indicator of the scholarly [...]

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Latest Impact Factor 2008 for Developmental Biology Related Journal

June 23rd, 2009 · 32 Comments · Academic Publishing

What needs to be emphasized first is that, no one likes the Impact Factor “game” including publishers and especially researchers.
Still, I am interested to check the latest developmental biology related journals’ Impact Factor launched out by Thomson Reuters at ISI Web of Knowledge for Journal Citation Reports (JCR) 2008, and IF, based on statistical and [...]

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2008/2009 JCR SCI Impact Factor released

June 20th, 2009 · 52 Comments · Academic Publishing

Today the latest version of 2008/2009 SCI Impact Factor (Science Citation Index) has been launched out from JCR of ISI Web of Knowledge.
This year 2 new indexes are taken into consideration in the SCI citation analysis, namely “Eigenfactor Score” and “Article Influence”. The journal performance in developmental biology has a bit of changes as in [...]

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Journal of Molecular Cell Biology (JMCB) newly launched

June 8th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Academic Publishing

One of Oxford Journals named Journal of Molecular Cell Biology (JMCB) was newly launched online at May 28th 2009 this year with the first review paper by Yisong Y. Wan and Richard A. Flavell, and the first article paper later at June 3rd 2009 titled “Generation of Pig-Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells with a Drug-Inducible [...]

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