Rising Above the Impact Factor: Supplemental Tables and Data
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Thompson ISI Citation Information: a closer look at the math
Impact Factor 2006 = 2006 citations (in ISI journals) to GENETICS’ articles published in 2004, 2005
number of GENETICS’ articles published in 2004 + 2005
4543 citations to recent articles
1071 total number of recent articles
Impact Factor = 4.242
2006 citations (in all ISI journals) to GENETICS’ articles 1
published
in 2005: 1981
in 2004: 2562
total:
4543
GENETICS number of articles 2 published
in 2005: 548
in 2004: 523
total:
1071
Immediacy Index:
.919
2006 cites to GENETICS’ articles published in 2006=558
divided by
Number of GENETICS’ articles published in 2006=607
558/607=.919
Immediacy Index is the average number of times an article is cited in the same year it is published. Useful for
comparing journals focused on “hot” research and fast publication.
Cited Half-Life:
8.6
Cited Half-Life is the median age of articles cited in the current (2006) JCR year.
Total Cites (of GENETICS’ articles in journals during 2006): 34,657
Number of times GENETICS’ articles are cited in ISI-indexed journals during 2006.
Table 1: GENETICS’ 2006 ISI Calculations
1
Articles in the IF numerator refer to source and non-source material in a journal that includes investigations, notes,
letters to the editor, review articles, mini-review articles, proceedings, front matter/other items (news material,
commentaries, editorials, book reviews).
2
Articles in the IF denominator refers to source items only – investigations, notes, letters to the editor.
1
Table 2 details 2006 ISI Journal Citation Report information for journals in the Genes &
Heredity category. Note the variation in the number of total cites and number of articles
published.
Rank
Abbreviated Journal Title
Total
Cites
Impact Factor
Immediacy
Index
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
Nature Genetics
Nature Rev Genetics
Annual Rev Genetics
Genes & Development
Trends Ecol Evol
Am J Human Genetics
Annual Rev Genom Hum G
Genome Research
Current Opinion Genet Dev
Trends Genetics
Human Molecular Genetics
PLoS Genet
Mutat Res-Rev Mutat
Pharmacogenetics
Genome Biology
Molecular Biol Evol
Oncogene
Hum Mutation
DNA Repair
Mol Ther
Pharmacogenet Genom
Genet Epidemiol
J Mol Med-JMM
J Med Genet
Gene Ther
Genes Immun
Hum Gene Ther
Am J Med Geneti B
BMC Evol Biol
Evolution
Neurogenetics
GENETICS
Cancer Gene Ther
Am J Med Genet C
Mutat Res-Fund Mol M
Chromosoma
BMC Genomics
Pharmacogenomics J
J Gene Med
Gene Chromosome Canc
Physiol Genomics
Eur J Hum Genet
Curr Gene Ther
Hum Genet
Genomics
Mol Phylogenet Evol
Genes Cells
Genet Med
54053
9196
4803
48407
13543
32627
1161
16493
7433
9926
24701
830
1519
4505
6837
17143
51032
6356
2552
6397
545
2771
3708
9117
9350
2241
7020
2005
850
21861
599
34657
2700
435
6761
3093
1644
852
2401
5463
2581
3848
699
8078
11337
7260
3134
1243
24.176
22.947
19.098
10.050
14.125
12.629
10.771
10.256
10.006
9.950
8.099
7.671
7.579
7.221
7.172
6.726
6.582
6.473
5.868
5.841
5.391
5.226
5.157
5.087
4.782
4.533
4.514
4.463
4.455
4.292
4.250
4.242
4.187
4.169
4.111
4.065
4.029
3.957
3.916
3.900
3.789
3.697
3.681
3.662
3.558
3.528
3.517
3.427
7.144
4.593
0.421
2.926
1.641
2.067
1.000
2.521
1.787
2.009
1.660
1.505
1.050
--0.814
1.537
1.191
1.232
0.855
1.325
1.104
0.635
0.657
1.303
1.176
0.845
0.763
0.657
0.490
0.384
0.968
0.919
0.795
0.469
0.514
1.023
0.500
0.918
0.763
1.069
0.616
1.182
0.311
1.033
0.659
0.707
0.645
0.429
Number of
Articles
Published
202
81
19
297
78
209
18
167
89
106
359
192
20
--177
257
773
138
145
212
67
63
105
201
188
84
114
134
104
229
31
607
117
32
183
44
322
49
131
116
151
159
45
152
179
276
110
98
Cited half-life
6.1
3.6
7.1
6.6
6.9
6.1
4.2
4.1
4.9
5.3
5.1
1.2
5.1
5.8
3.6
6.6
4.9
4.3
2.6
3.3
1.4
5.0
4.8
5.1
5.3
3.5
6.1
2.4
2.4
>10.0
3.3
8.6
4.3
2.6
5.1
>10.0
2.1
3.1
2.9
5.8
3.3
4.2
2.9
7.9
8.6
4.6
4.9
4.0
2
Rank
Abbreviated Journal Title
Total
Cites
Impact Factor
Immediacy
Index
49
50
Crit Rev Eukar Gene
Evol Dev
680
1080
3.342
3.293
0.294
1.120
Number of
Articles
Published
17
50
Cited half-life
6.7
3.6
Table 2: Excerpt from Thomson Scientific 2006 JCR Science Editor Journal Summary List,
Genetics & Heredity category (131 journals), ranked by Impact Factor
Journal Cited Half-Life
The cited half-life is the median age of a journal’s articles cited in the current year. Half the
citations to the journal are to articles published within the cited half-life.
Cited Half-Life: 8.6 years
Table 3 shows the number of citations to the journal by the cumulative percent of 2006 cites,
to articles published in the following years:
2006 2005
# Cites from 2006
558 1981
Cumulative %
1.61
2004
2003
2562
2348
7.33 14.72 21.49
Year Published
2002 2001 2000
2063
2101
1999
2651
1904
1998
1963
1997
1996-all
1541
14985
27.45 33.51 41.16 46.65 52.32 56.76
100
Table 3: Excerpt from Genetics detail data, Thomson ISI Scientific
Table 4 shows the number of times articles published during 2006 (in journals below) cited
articles published in GENETICS (in years below). So, Molecular Ecology has cited GENETICS’
articles 1284 times – to 4 articles published in 2006, 40 in 2005, etc.
IF
Citing Journal
all yrs
Year Published
2006
2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 Rest
34657
558 1981 2562 2348 2063 2101 2651 1904 1963 1541 14985
4.242 GENETICS
4034
81
305
373
337
303
230
311
202
163
155
1574
4.825 Molecular Ecology
1284
4
40
65
100
49
63
102
73
36
113
639
2.715 Theroretical and Applied Genetics
733
7
41
81
55
42
35
63
22
75
21
291
9.643 PNAS
672
16
52
74
49
43
51
54
31
47
23
232
6.726 Molecular Biology and Evolution
661
13
54
62
53
51
59
73
38
35
33
190
4.292 Evolution
553
8
32
55
20
27
37
24
27
27
28
268
7.671 PloS Genetics
483
20
42
46
45
37
25
34
22
24
15
173
5.808 Journal of Biological Chemistry
378
4
35
14
17
19
32
36
24
17
21
159
2.872 Heredity
360
3
23
20
29
17
21
25
19
25
21
157
all journals
3
IF
Citing Journal
all yrs
2006
2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 Rest
6.773 Molecular and Cellular Biology
347
3
18
20
20
19
32
28
34
15
25
133
2.970 J Evolution Biology
325
1
8
23
30
18
22
24
16
25
20
138
324
15
18
27
29
38
23
20
17
12
15
110
3.528 Mol Phylogenetics and Evolution
309
1
3
8
9
7
10
22
29
19
37
164
7.764 Development
296
4
7
26
15
16
18
14
21
19
9
147
4.893 Developmental Biology
293
3
9
22
15
6
24
25
11
11
16
151
3.707 Eukaryotic Cell
288
11
24
14
20
17
34
17
20
19
18
94
1.972 Genome
276
6
23
42
17
17
14
26
9
20
4
98
22.947 Nature Reviews Genetics
265
8
40
31
25
17
20
22
13
9
7
73
10.256 Genome Research
254
8
29
25
19
32
14
17
20
13
7
70
2.767 J Molecular Evolution
254
0
6
29
20
18
28
31
15
23
10
74
6.562 Molecular Biology of the Cell
254
2
17
16
13
13
19
17
7
16
18
116
6.317 Nucleic Acids Research
251
6
25
18
11
17
29
12
19
14
17
83
2.721 Gene
235
2
14
13
18
13
21
33
15
14
9
83
1.429 Conservation Genetics
219
0
0
3
15
8
8
20
11
7
19
128
2.000 Genetical Research
219
1
12
12
14
9
11
22
12
10
8
108
0.254 Russian Journal of Genetics
213
2
8
11
7
8
10
11
14
14
13
115
1.153 Crop Science
210
11
10
18
10
5
4
12
8
19
6
107
3.612 Proceedings Royal Soc B-Biol Sci
204
1
3
10
13
13
11
9
11
11
9
113
1.492 Genetica
202
0
8
13
15
9
8
8
7
10
6
118
6.565 Plant Journal
201
7
14
18
16
16
18
15
16
25
7
49
3.993 Journal of Bacteriology
196
4
1
8
8
16
10
17
11
13
6
102
5.634 Molecular Microbiology
192
3
16
12
8
14
19
16
13
11
5
75
4.029 BMC Genomics
185
7
17
20
21
10
13
21
9
8
6
53
9.868 Plant Cell
182
5
17
9
19
12
23
14
10
22
7
44
2.264 J Theor Biol
181
1
5
21
19
13
8
9
14
8
5
78
5.868 DNA Repair
177
0
13
13
5
19
17
11
10
13
15
61
2.445 Biol J Linn Soc
171
0
0
1
5
3
4
6
11
10
8
123
168
8
11
11
14
9
13
6
13
7
13
63
2.279 Mamm Genome
167
0
24
17
7
6
14
7
5
7
5
75
9.950 Trends Genet
165
4
17
18
16
18
16
14
4
7
5
46
161
8
13
17
13
15
4
9
8
16
1
57
159
1
6
21
10
13
7
9
11
10
13
58
153
1
13
11
22
9
5
19
2
1
4
66
1.520 Anim Genet
151
3
9
7
13
6
12
11
9
16
7
58
0.907 Euphytica
149
1
4
7
6
5
7
6
6
13
3
91
1.942 J Hered
147
1
4
5
7
7
12
9
6
1
9
86
10.086 EMBO J
145
1
11
11
8
7
9
11
17
8
4
58
14.101 PLoS Biology
145
6
11
18
12
16
11
10
8
7
3
43
6.125 Plant Physiol
143
6
10
11
18
8
14
15
8
17
6
30
26.681 Nature
137
7
19
27
18
5
4
7
8
8
6
28
24.176 Nature Genetics
133
7
10
15
9
14
9
10
5
4
4
46
10.988 Current Biology
15.050 Genes and Development
29.194 Cell
2.552 Mol Genet Genomics
12.629 American J Human Genetics
4
IF
Citing Journal
all yrs
2006
2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 Rest
4.065 Chromosoma
132
0
15
12
9
15
8
5
6
4
3
55
4.660 American Naturalist
130
1
7
9
7
5
5
8
5
10
11
62
128
3
4
12
4
6
4
8
10
8
5
64
2.491 Theoretical Population Biology
127
0
2
7
8
6
4
5
4
5
10
76
9.784 Annual Rev Ecol Evol S
126
2
14
12
6
3
4
9
5
6
5
60
7.172 Genome Biology
126
6
11
12
8
6
13
12
8
5
5
40
2.081 Aquaculture
123
0
5
9
9
8
17
8
7
11
5
44
3.577 Plant Mol Bio
122
2
5
5
8
8
11
8
4
18
1
52
3.057 Chromosome Res
119
2
10
12
7
3
3
10
6
5
4
57
13.523 Developmental Cell
118
0
2
11
9
4
9
9
6
9
2
57
1.983 J Animal Science
117
0
0
1
17
2
5
15
11
12
1
53
3.121 Fungal Genet Biol
114
0
10
10
4
10
11
10
4
2
7
46
5.965 BIOESSAYS
107
1
8
12
8
4
4
8
7
7
5
43
4.245 New Phytologist
107
3
5
8
8
7
10
6
1
5
9
45
107
7
7
12
10
12
4
16
1
6
3
29
3.617 BMC Bioinfomatics
103
1
12
8
12
5
7
9
6
9
5
29
2.220 Current Genetics
103
2
7
6
8
6
8
7
3
8
6
42
6.427 J Cell Sci
102
2
5
4
4
7
4
12
5
2
3
54
2.962 Biochemical Society Transactions
100
3
9
5
8
9
7
6
12
2
8
31
4.455 BMC Evolutionary Biology
100
2
8
7
4
8
7
15
6
3
6
34
2.930 Experimental Gerontology
98
2
4
6
5
9
4
8
7
5
1
47
8.099 Human Molecular Genetics
98
2
5
7
8
3
8
13
6
5
1
40
98
0
5
4
5
3
6
10
2
14
5
44
1.456 BMC Genetics
96
1
5
5
11
5
7
10
6
4
3
39
1.756 Marine Biology
96
0
0
0
1
0
0
3
3
2
7
80
96
0
9
8
7
2
3
5
8
4
6
44
95
0
2
5
5
8
0
7
2
3
7
56
95
3
13
11
2
8
5
13
3
7
2
28
94
2
2
4
8
3
7
6
4
8
5
45
0.574 Genetics and Molecular Biology
93
0
1
1
1
1
3
1
5
7
5
68
1.778 Genetics Selection Evolution
92
0
4
7
4
6
3
9
10
6
4
39
89
7
10
14
9
7
6
11
1
1
3
20
86
2
4
3
8
4
7
8
7
4
6
33
85
3
3
6
8
8
4
6
6
5
7
29
3.532
Applied and Environmental
Microbiology
30.028 Science
4.111
15.864
Mutation Research Fund Mol Mech of
Mutan
Microbiology Molecular Biology
Reviews
2.969 American Journal of Botany
14.033 Molecular Cell
ACTA Genet Sinica
10.006
Current Opinion in Genetics &
Development
1.955 Yeast
2.855
Biochemical & Biophysical Research
Comm.
Table 4: Excerpt from table showing, in 2006, journals citing articles published in GENETICS
5
Journal Citing Half-Life
The citing half-life for the journal is the median age of the articles the journal cited in the
current JCR year. Half of the citations in the journal are to articles published within the citing
half-life.
Citing Half-Life: 6.8 years
Table 5 shows the citations from the journal by the cumulative percent of 2006 cites to articles
published in the following cited years. Clearly, the vast majority of cites from articles published
in 2006 were to articles published in journals prior to 1996.
2006 2005
# Cites from 2006
488 2402
Cumulative %
1.57
2004
2003
Year Published
2002 2001 2000
1999
1998
1997
1996-all
3010
2877
2664
2295
2255
1757
1589
1406
10254
9.32 19.03
28.32
36.91
44.31
51.59
57.26
62.38
66.92
100
Table 5: Excerpt from GENETICS detail data, Thomson ISI Scientific
Table 6 shows the number of times articles published in GENETICS during 2006 cited articles
published in journals below. Note the differing patterns (the journals GENETICS’ cites)
compared to Table 4, those journals that cite GENETICS.
IF
Cited Journal
all
yrs
Year Published
2006
2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 Rest
30997
488 2402 3010 2877 2664 2295 2255 1757 1589 1406 10254
4.242 Genetics
4034
81
305
373
337
303
230
311
202
163
155
1574
9.643 PNAS
1726
18
127
147
157
161
149
129
81
99
93
565
26.681 Nature
1258
12
81
94
128
133
89
130
68
53
57
413
30.028 Science
1052
10
81
92
82
130
93
85
68
55
47
309
845
11
38
57
40
51
59
42
41
51
58
397
6.773 Molecular and Cellular Biology
751
6
49
80
54
49
38
56
70
43
46
260
5.808 Journal of Biological Chemistry
676
9
52
67
67
55
63
56
50
42
31
184
635
7
46
39
41
64
46
33
53
53
62
191
6.726 Molecular Biology and Evolution
603
14
72
79
80
60
70
34
29
29
17
119
7.764 Development
503
4
32
47
41
29
30
55
41
43
45
136
488
1
25
33
28
39
36
35
45
39
40
167
4.292 Evolution
432
1
25
35
34
28
23
24
24
17
13
208
6.317 Nucleic Acids Res
427
9
41
34
38
22
20
19
16
14
52
162
421
8
54
58
48
55
47
39
31
23
8
50
379
5
27
28
39
34
23
28
16
17
21
141
355
12
56
55
55
35
42
45
6
33
12
4
all journals
29.194 Cell
15.050 Genes & Development
10.086 EMBO J
24.176 Nature Genetics
2.715 Theroretical and Applied Genetics
10.256 Genome Research
6
IF
Cited Journal
all
yrs
2006
2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 Rest
12.629 Am Journal Human Genetics
354
0
17
38
41
47
41
33
22
22
16
77
10.988 Current Biology
351
8
44
66
47
46
53
30
18
14
8
17
9.868 Plant Cell
288
8
25
39
22
41
27
30
23
13
14
46
2.000 Genetical Research
269
4
7
10
14
17
25
16
20
13
16
127
14.033 Molecular Cell
248
4
31
41
42
22
28
37
25
17
1
0
10.152 Journal of Cell Biology
244
2
8
14
15
14
13
22
13
25
19
99
4.825 Molecular Ecology
225
6
40
32
37
26
22
22
10
13
6
11
6.562 Molecular Biology of the Cell
209
4
19
29
18
27
18
21
15
13
12
33
3.993 Journal of Bacteriology
207
4
14
4
11
11
12
11
9
13
12
106
9.950 Trends Genet
207
4
25
25
30
24
19
24
7
7
7
35
4.893 Developmental Biology
203
2
9
11
10
14
16
12
16
7
7
99
Mol Gen Genet
192
0
0
1
0
0
3
13
8
10
19
138
4.894 Bioinformatics
187
4
20
22
56
26
15
10
21
13
0
0
174
3
21
34
34
46
32
4
0
0
0
0
2.767 J Molecular Evolution
173
2
9
7
24
15
8
10
14
11
8
65
2.721 Gene
167
0
6
12
8
13
11
17
7
4
18
71
4.890 J Molecular Biology
167
0
6
8
7
6
7
11
10
8
7
97
5.634 Molecular Microbiology
158
4
15
19
16
21
17
12
13
8
4
29
6.427 J Cell Science
155
3
13
23
23
21
9
20
6
5
7
25
2.491 Theoretical Population Biology
148
0
3
7
11
3
9
5
4
5
8
93
1.955 Yeast
141
1
4
5
7
3
10
7
16
32
7
49
139
0
9
13
8
9
13
18
9
6
5
49
6.565 Plant Journal
139
3
11
14
18
8
19
10
8
14
3
31
2.872 Heredity
138
2
18
19
15
0
0
7
0
1
0
76
4.660 American Naturalist
137
1
4
6
6
2
4
7
6
1
1
99
6.125 Plant Physiol
131
3
18
22
21
13
31
6
3
2
1
11
1.972 Genome
128
0
9
17
7
15
11
11
9
13
3
33
13.894 Neuron
127
0
2
11
9
16
13
13
17
10
2
34
10.006 Current Opinion in Genetics & Development
108
0
8
14
11
22
21
6
9
5
4
8
3.612 Proceedings Royal Soc B-Biol Sci
105
0
13
8
9
8
4
11
8
4
6
34
1.942 J of Heredity
103
1
3
12
11
10
9
2
5
2
1
47
4.065 Chromosoma
102
7
8
11
6
4
9
9
4
2
6
36
1.492 Genetica
99
0
4
16
7
3
4
8
4
21
6
26
3.577 Plant Molecular Biology
98
0
8
7
9
16
3
18
2
5
8
22
1.640 Method Enzymol
90
0
4
3
1
14
0
2
1
0
0
65
18.485 Nature Cell Biology
89
6
12
16
12
11
13
11
8
0
0
0
87
3
5
10
9
8
11
6
12
2
7
14
86
8
11
17
22
17
11
0
0
0
0
0
86
2
15
7
12
8
5
9
8
6
3
11
85
2
42
27
14
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
82
1
2
4
2
2
7
6
7
5
6
40
22.947 Nature Reviews Genetics
19.098 Annual Review of Genetics
2.279 Mamm Genome
13.253 Developmental Cell
8.099 Hum Mol Genet
14.101 PLoS Biology
3.558 Genomics
7
IF
Cited Journal
all
yrs
3.372 FEBS Lett
14.125 Trends Ecol Evol
2006
2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 Rest
81
1
6
8
4
8
7
17
6
5
6
13
80
1
5
10
9
10
12
9
6
3
1
14
Table 6: Excerpt from table showing, in 2006, journals that were cited by articles published in
GENETICS
Eigenfactor
An Eigenfactor (EF) is a measure of overall value provided by journal articles published in a
given year. With an Eigenfactor of .16, GENETICS ranked 6/298 in Eigenfactor’s Genetics and
Heredity Field. 3 The 2005 data ranks GENETICS 93/6327 of all journals classified.
In terms of Eigenfactor rankings of all journals, the top three overall journals are Nature (EF
2.23), Science (2.13), Journal of Biological Chemistry (2.04), and PNAS (1.94). Interestingly,
because EigenFactor adjusts for citation patters across disciplines, many influential journals
(while not recognized by Impact Factor) are ranked highly according to EigenFactor. Nature,
Science, and PNAS are classified in the Multi-disciplinary Sciences Field, and are not included
in Table 7 (below).
Article Influence (AI) is a measure of a journal’s prestige based on per article citations and
comparable to (and typically correlates with) ISI Impact Factor. So, as indicated in the
GENEtics print article, with a 2004 AI of 2.61, the average paper in GENETICS is 2.61 times
are influential as the average article in the scientific literature indexed by Thomson’s ISI.
Recent data indicates that, in 2005, our AI is 2.43.
Table 7 shows the top-60 journal rankings in the Molecular and Cell Biology Category, in which
GENETICS is listed (in EigenFactor) with a ranking of 41/506.
While JBC’s ISI impact factor is a modest 5.808 – which puts it at 39/262 ISI-indexed journals
in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology category – its EigenFactor ranking #1/506-journal
Molecular & Cell Biology category – twice that of the next highest journal.
Rank
Journal Title
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Journal of Biological Chemistry
Cell
Journal of Immunology
EMBO Journal
Blood
Molecular and Cellular Biology
Cancer Research
Nature Genetics
Genes & Development
Journal of Cell Biology
EigenFactor
2.04
.75
.57
.50
.49
.46
.46
.39
.38
.38
Article
Influence
2.40
17.24
2.48
6.88
3.04
4.15
2.78
13.97
10.39
6.25
3
As of 1 August 2007, based on 2004 data. In September 2007, since the printing of the original article, Eigenfactor
released updated statistics using 2005 data, modified its site, and adjusted rankings and some categories.
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Rank
Journal Title
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
Molecular Cell
Nucleic Acids Research
Biochemistry
Oncogene
Journal of Experimental Medicine
Journal of Molecular Biology
Journal of Clinical Investigation
Current Biology
Journal of Virology
Biochem and Biophys Res Comm
Nature Medicine
Development
Nature Cell Biology
Nature Immunology
FEBS Letters
Journal of Cell Science
American J of Human Genetics
Molecular Biology of the Cell
Journal of Bacteriology
Biochemical Journal
Molecular Microbiology
Biophysical Journal
Immunity
Infection and Immunity
Human Molecular Genetics
Nature Reviews Mol Cell Biology
Clinical Cancer Research
Genome Research
Plant Physiology
Nature Biotechnology
GENETICS
FASEB Journal
American Journal of Pathology
Developmental Biology
Bioinfomatics
Endocrinology
Plant Cell
Developmental Cell
International Journal of Cancer
Nature Reviews Genetics
Current Opinion in Cell Biology
European Journal of Immunology
Plant Journal
British Journal of Cancer
Trends in Biochemical Sciences
Annual Review of Immunoloty
Trends in Genetics
Molecular Biology and Evolution
Trends in Cell Biology
Annual Review of Biochemistry
EigenFactor
.37
.36
.36
.32
.32
.32
.31
.31
.31
.29
.29
.28
.25
.23
.22
.22
.21
.20
.20
.18
.18
.18
.18
.18
.17
.17
.17
.17
.16
.16
.16
.15
.15
.14
.14
.14
.14
.13
.12
.11
.11
.11
.10
.10
.10
.10
.09
.09
.09
.08
Article
Influence
10.18
3.03
1.55
2.60
7.07
2.57
6.44
6.34
1.66
1.06
12.84
4.13
10.63
14.34
1.46
3.54
5.22
1.62
1.62
1.74
3.23
2.03
8.64
8.64
3.87
19.75
1.72
4.84
2.33
7.84
2.43
2.60
2.47
2.68
3.16
1.73
4.88
10.28
1.35
13.57
8.73
2.05
2.69
1.22
7.16
26.52
6.60
3.10
7.94
22.45
Table 7: Excerpt from 2005 Molecular and Cell Biology category (506 journals), ranked by EigenFactor
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Rank
Journal Title
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
Nature Genetics
Genes & Development
Oncogene
American Journal of Human Genetics
Human Molecular Genetics
Genome Research
GENETICS
Nature Reviews Genetics
Trends in Genetics
Molecular Biology & Evolution
Gene
Trends in Ecology & Evolution
Evolution
Current Opinion in Genetics &
Development
Journal of Medical Genetics
Genomics
Gene Therapy
Theoretical & Applied Genetics
Human Mutation
Molecular Phylogen and Evol
Molecular Therapy
Human Genetics
Annual Review of Genetics
Mutation Research – Fundamental &
Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis
Human Gene Therapy
Journal of Evolutionary Biology
Journal of Molecular Evolution
Genes to Cells
Genes Chromosomes & Cancer
European Journal of Human Genetics
Genesis
Genetics Epidemiology
Mammilian Genome
Molecular Genetics & Genomics
Journal of Molecular Medicine
Immunogenetics
Genome
Clinical Genetics
Genes and Immunity
Molecular Genetics and Metabolism
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
EigenFactor
.39
.38
.32
.21
.17
.17
.16
.11
.09
.09
.08
.07
.07
Article
Influence
13.97
10.39
2.60
5.22
3.87
4.84
2.43
13.57
6.60
3.10
1.25
8.41
2.19
.07
5.59
.05
.04
.04
.04
.04
.04
.04
.03
.03
2.10
1.40
1.36
.92
2.63
1.42
1.55
1.64
0.65
.03
1.08
.03
.03
.03
.03
.02
.02
.02
.02
.02
.02
.02
.02
.02
.01
.01
.01
1.25
1.70
1.36
1.98
1.27
1.25
1.66
1.70
1.06
.96
1.53
.97
.81
.92
1.34
.77
Table 8: Excerpt from 2005 JCR Genetics & Heredity category (96 journals), ranked by EigenFactor
View Eigenfactor data at http://www.eigenfactor.org, and conduct an advanced search.
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Bergstrom-McAfee Pricing
For each journal in the index, the site provides information on price per article and price per
citation, based on institutional pricing and information from ISI. The overall value of a journal
is calculated by comparing the composite price index to the median for non-profit journals in
the same subject. Each journal is given an overall value code – by color – green (very good),
yellow (low value), red (very low value).
Overall, Biology journals earning a:
green/very good: 389 titles with Relative Cost Index <1.1
yellow/low: 294 titles with Relative Cost Index between 1.1 and 1.5
red/very low: 509 titles with a Relative Cost Index >1.5
GENETICS’ relative cost index of .22 earns it the highest category of cost-effectiveness
(marked as “green” in the pricing index).
Other Bergstrom-McAfee Pricing indices for GENETICS are:
Price per article: $1.75
Price per citation: 0.51
Composite Price Index: 0.95
Relative Cost Index 0.22
The data for profit + non-profit 1191 Biology journals is:
Mean Journal Price: $1,210.41
Median Journal Price: $756.00
Mean number of annual articles: 119.84
Median number of annual articles: 69.50
Mean number of citations: 319.57
Median number of citations: 88.30
Mean Price per article: $14.71
Median Price per article: $10.32
Mean Price per citation: $29.77
Median Price per citation: $8.09
Mean Composite Price Index: 15.06
Median Composite Price Index: 9.97
To look up cost information on GENETICS and other journals, see the beta version, freely
available at http://www.journalprices.com. The site includes current data in Microsoft Excel,
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allowing for easy sorting of all journals. Particularly interesting is the summary information –
comparing price and cost data for profit and non-profit journals across all disciplines.
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