1,192 Wiley Journals Have an Impact Factor; One in Five Are in the Top Ten of Their Categories
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., today announced a continued increase in the
proportion of its journal titles indexed in the Thomson Reuters® 2012
Journal Citation Reports (JCR), with 1,192 (approximately 77%) titles
now indexed, up from 1,156 in the 2011 JCR. Wiley titles now account for
the largest share of journals in 50 categories.
In the 2012 JCR the number of Wiley journals with a top category rank
increased by 19% (4) and the number of Wiley titles indexed in the top
ten of their categories also increased by 11% (27). Of publishers with
more than 100 journals indexed in the 2012 JCR, Wiley saw the largest
proportion of titles (close to 60%) increasing in Impact Factor (IF).
Highlights:
1,192 Wiley journals now have an IF.
25 Wiley journals achieved a top category rank across 31 JCR categories,
up from 21 in 2011.
264 Wiley journals achieved a top 10 category rank across 341
categories, up from 237 in 2011.
59.4% of Wiley journals increased their IF.
Wiley titles appear in 218 of the 232 subject categories.
Wiley journals make up the largest share of journals in 50 categories.
CA – A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, a Wiley published journal,
continues to have the highest IF in the JCR.
“We are honoured to work with the editors, societies, and publishing
teams behind such high quality publications, and it gives us great
pleasure to see the portfolio go from strength to strength. All those
involved, our colleagues and our partners, should be delighted by the
latest JCR results,” said Steven Miron, Senior Vice President in Wiley’s
Global Research business.
One of the largest changes this year is the partnership between Wiley
and the American Geophysical Union, whose portfolio of influential
geoscience and geophysics titles is responsible for 6% of citations to
journals published by Wiley in the 2012 JCR. Of these titles, Journal of
Advances in Modeling Earth Systems entered the Meteorology & Atmospheric
Sciences category in the top ten, with an IF of 4.117.
Other success stories include the first appearance of Advanced Energy
Materials, entering the JCR with an Impact Factor of 10.043 – putting it
in the top ten of all five of its JCR subject categories. Advanced
Energy Materials joins the successful Advanced Materials series, which
includes titles such as Advanced Functional Materials (9.765) and
Advanced Materials (14.829). Collectively, these journals appear in the
top ten of a JCR subject category 15 times, asserting the traction of
this journal series within the scientific community.
This year also sees a continuing increase in IF of CA – A Cancer Journal
for Clinicians, published on behalf of The American Cancer Society. Last
year this journal became the first to achieve an IF over 100 and has
this year broken its own record with an IF of 153.459 at 0%
self-citation, a 51% increase from its 2011 IF. The Impact Factors of
its two sister titles, Cancer (5.201) and Cancer Cytopathology (4.434),
also increased.
The WIRES (Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews) portfolio has continued to
increase in strength, with seven WIRES titles now indexed in the JCR,
three of which received their first IF this year.
Impact factors are a metric that reflect the frequency that
peer-reviewed journals are cited by researchers, and are often used as a
tool for evaluating a journal’s quality.
Highlights in Chemistry, Physical Sciences and Engineering:
Four publications rank at number one in their category this year,
including Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering (4.460 and
number one in three categories); Acta Crystallographica Section D which
is distributed on behalf of the IUCR and further increased its IF to
14.103, now ranking number one in two categories; the International
Journal of Energy Research (1.987); and WIREs Computational Molecular
Science (5.738) which received its first IF and entered the JCR at
number one of the Mathematical & Computational Biology category.
Other journals with impressive first IFs include Advanced Energy
Materials (10.043); Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology (2.679/
jointly published with the SCI); the International Journal of Applied
Glass Science (1.548/published on behalf of the American Ceramic
Society); and WIRES Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery (1.422). These
excellent results underline Wiley’s constant efforts for innovation in
publishing.
Angewandte Chemie, a journal of the German Chemical Society published
under the Wiley-VCH imprint, saw its IF rise further to 13.734. It has
strengthened its position as the leading multidisciplinary chemistry
journal publishing both primary research and review articles.
ChemSusChem, Angewandte’s sister journal jointly published by Wiley-VCH
and ChemPubSoc Europe, received an impressive new IF of 7.475, a further
increase of 43%.
Highlights in Social Sciences and Humanities:
Wiley publishes 424 ranked titles within the Social Science JCR
categories and 19% (79 titles) are ranked within the top ten of their
respective categories, achieving 90 top ten rankings. Wiley publishes
the top ranked journal in seven of the Social Science JCR categories,
including Business, Finance; Health Policy & Services; Psychology,
Educational; Family Studies; Public Administration. The Milbank
Quarterly topped categories in both the Science (Health Care Sciences &
Services) and Social Science (Health Policy & Services) JCR. 17% of the
Social Science JCR total citations received in 2012 were to Wiley
published titles.
Eleven titles received an IF for the first time in 2012 including
Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy which ranked within the top
ten for its subject category. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being
and Global Policy received their first IFs in 2012 and entered their
subject categories within the top 20.
Wiley’s Social Sciences and Humanities titles received several notable
increases, including Business Strategy and the Environment which
increased by 65% from 1.960 to 3.236 and Review of Policy Research which
increased by 72% from 0.646 to 1.113 placing it within the top ten
journals in Public Administration. Journal of Child Psychology and
Psychiatry’s IF increased from 4.281 to 5.42 in 2012, ranking it second
in Psychology, Developmental.Nine Wiley published journals saw their
2012 Impact Factors double, including Australian Accounting Review;
Political Studies Review; Syntax; International Journal of Finance &
Economics and The Developing Economies.
Wiley publishes more ranked titles than any other publisher in 12 out of
52 Social Science categories (including Anthropology, Business, Finance,
Economics, Political Science, and three Psychology categories) and
publishes the number one journals in nine categories (including
Neuroimaging, Radiology, Biodiversity Conservation, Physical Geography,
Zoology, and Palaeontology).
Highlights in Life, Earth, and Environmental Sciences:
Eighty-five journals within Wiley’s Life, Earth, and Environmental
Sciences publishing program are ranked within the top ten of their
category, giving 101 top ten rankings overall. Eight journals rank at
number one in their categories, including Ecology Letters which achieved
an IF of 17.949 and retained its position as the number one ranking
journal in Ecology.
Six new journals received their first IF including WIREs RNA at 4.186,
Biotechnology Journal at 3.446 and the recently launched open access
journal Ecology and Evolution at 1.184.
There were also strong performances for Annals of the New York Academy
of Sciences (4.375), FEMS Microbiology Reviews which rose from 10.960 to
13.231, Human Brain Mapping (6.878) and Reviews of Geophysics, published
on behalf of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), which increased to
13.906 and ranks number two in Geochemistry & Geophysics.
Microbial Biotechnology, which recently moved to an open access model,
achieved its second IF rising from 2.534 to 3.214. It went up 14 places
in the Microbiology category to 38/116, and 21 places in the
Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology category to 41/159.
Highlights in Health Sciences:
This year 329 Wiley health science journals featured in the JCR,
including eight number one ranking journals and overall 62 journals
which appear in the top ten of a subject category. Three titles have
been indexed for the first time and received their first IF.
The number one ranked journals are CA – A Cancer Journal for Clinicians
(153.459/Oncology), American Journal of Transplantation,
(6.192/Transplantation), Addiction Biology (5.914/Substance Abuse),
Addiction (4.577/Substance Abuse – Social Science), Periodontology 2000
(4.012/Dentistry, Oral Surgery & Medicine), International Journal of
Andrology (3.565/Andrology), Medical Education (3.546/Education,
Scientific Disciplines) and BIRTH: Issues in Perinatal Care
(2.926/Nursing, in both Science and Social Science JCRs).
Wiley now publishes the top three journals in the Substance Abuse
Science category: Addiction Biology, Addiction, and Alcoholism: Clinical
and Experimental Research.
British Journal of Pharmacology was awarded an Impact Factor of 5.067 –
making it the leading general pharmacology research journal in the
pharmacology and pharmacy category.
Both journals published on behalf of the American College of
Rheumatology, Arthritis & Rheumatism, and Arthritis Care & Research,
remain in the top ten of the Rheumatology category.
The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews is ranked 11 of the 151
journals in the Medicine, General & Internal category. The total number
of times the CDSR was cited increased from 29,593 in 2011 to 34,230,
meaning the CDSR received the 6th highest number of citations in its
category.
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