John Wiley & Sons, Inc., today announced a continued increase in the
proportion of its journal titles indexed in the 2014 release of Thomson
Reuters Journal Citation Reports® (JCR).
A total of 1,202 Wiley titles (approximately 70%) were indexed, up from
1,193 in the 2012 JCR, and including 13 titles which have been indexed
for the first time.
Wiley journals were indexed in 217 of 232 JCR subject categories. Of
these, 27 Wiley journals achieved a top category rank, up from 25 in
2012 while 193 titles are placed within the top 10% of their subject
category.
Highlights
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1,202 Wiley journals now have an Impact Factor
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27 Wiley journals received a top category rank, up from 25 in 2012
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244 Wiley Journals achieved a top ten category rank
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Wiley titles now account for the largest share of journals in 42
categories
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CA – A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, a Wiley published
journal, continues to have the highest Impact Factor in the JCR.
Wiley’s portfolio continues to be strong across both science and social
sciences with Wiley journals accounting for the largest share of
journals, citations and articles across 17 categories. In the Social
Science JCR Wiley journals accounted for the second largest proportion
of journals, citations and articles overall.
“We are delighted with this performance,” said Steve Miron, Senior Vice
President, Global Research. ”We are proud to work with dedicated
editors, society partners and Wiley colleagues whose commitment to
quality and excellence in research is reflected in these results.”
The Advanced Materials portfolio continues its strong
performance. Advanced Healthcare Materials received its first
Impact Factor of 4.880 this year while Advanced Energy Materials recorded
stellar growth to 14.385 (+43.23%). Advanced Materials maintained
its outstanding position with a new Impact Factor of 15.409 (up from
14.829), following a meteoric rise in recent years and is furthermore
listed in six different ISI categories. Advanced Functional
Materials achieved its highest ever Impact Factor of 10.439.
CA – A Cancer Journal for Clinicians maintains the highest Impact
Factor in the JCR. Published on behalf of The American Cancer Society,
this journal was the first to achieve an Impact Factor over 100 and has
this year broken its own record with a score of 162.500.
Human Resource Management Journal took the first place
ranking in Industrial Relations & Labor increasing by 56% from 1.558 to
2.423 while Journal of Finance retains the number one
position in Business and Finance, jumping from 4.333 to 6.033.
Water Resources Research increased by 18% taking the number one
spot in Limnology (3.709) while Paleoceanography(3.918)
increased by 19% retaining the number one position in Paleontology. Both
journals are published by Wiley on behalf of the American Geophysical
Union.
82% of the journals published out of our Asia-Pacific offices now have
an Impact Factor, including the following top ten ranked journals: International
Journals of Mental Health Nursing, Drug and Alcohol Review,
Australian Grape and Wine Research and Australian
Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics. International Review of
Finance also received its first Impact Factor in 2013.
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.
Wiley publishes on behalf of more societies and professional
associations than any other publisher.
Highlights in Physical Sciences:
Seven publications rank at number one in their category this year, these
include Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: -
Statistical Methodology (Statistics & Probability) with a 19%
increase to 5.721, Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics (Mathematics/3.080)
as well as The Journal of the American Ceramic Society (Ceramics)
which is ranked number one for both Impact Factor (2.428) and total
cites (32,763). Physical Sciences titles also ranked at number one
include: Acta Crystallographica D (Crystallography/7.232), International
Journal of Energy Research (Nuclear Science & Technology/2.737) and WIREs
Computational Molecular Science (Mathematical and Computational
Biology) which saw a 58% increase to Impact Factor 9.041. Computer-Aided
Civil & Infrastructure Engineering retains the number one
ranking across the following categories: Construction & Building
Technology, Civil Engineering and Transportation Science & Technology
with an impact factor of 5.625.
Three recently launched chemistry journals showed strong first Impact
Factors: ChemPlusChem with an inaugural Impact Factor of
3.242, ChemistryOpen scored 2.938, the highest Impact Factor
for an open access general chemistry journal in the multidisciplinary
categoryand Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry with a first
Impact Factor of 2.292. Notable increases also include Chemical
Engineering and Technology (+59%/2.175) and The
Chemical Record published on behalf of the Japanese Chemical Society
which recorded an all-time high Impact Factor of 5.577 (+27%). Overall
chemistry journals also continue to occupy leading rankings: Medicinal
Research Reviews ranks number two in Medicinal Chemistry with an
Impact Factor of 8.131 and Mass Spectrometry Reviews continues
to rank at number two in Spectroscopy with an Impact Factor of 8.053.
Further notable increases include Environmetrics (+36%/1.486), International
Statistical Review (+66%/1.190), Laser & Photonics
Reviews (+17%/9.313) and Wind Energy (+78%/2.556). Progress
in Photovoltaics (+26%/9.696) nowranks in the top ten of
Physics, Applied, while the International Journal of Applied
Glass Science built upon its first ever Impact Factor in 2012
(+10%/1.710) and ranks now number five in Ceramics. Journal of
Advanced Transportation increased by 156% to 1.878 and moved up 49
places (17/124) in Civil Engineering and entered the top ten in
Transportation Science & Technology.
Highlights in Social Sciences and Humanities:
Wiley publishes 428 ranked titles within the Social Science JCR
categories and 18% (76 titles) are ranked within the top ten of their
respective categories, achieving 93 top ten rankings. Wiley publishes
the top ranked journal in eight of the Social Science JCR categories,
including Business, Finance; Criminology & Penology; Health Policy &
Services and Industrial Relations & Labor. 17% of the Social Science JCR
total citations received in 2013 were to Wiley published titles.
Six titles received an Impact Factor for the first time in 2013
including International Review of Finance, Journal
of Contingencies and Crisis Management, Learning Disabilities Research &
Practice and Quantitative Economics. Social
Issues and Policy Review received its first Impact Factor in
2013 and entered the Social Issues subject category within the top
twenty.
Wiley’s Social Sciences and Humanities titles received several notable
increases, including Journal of Neuropsychologywhich
increased its Impact Factor by 57% from 2.438 in 2012 to 3.818 in 2013,
climbing twelve ranking positions in Psychology, Experimental to be
ranked seven. Wiley publishes three of the top five journals in the
Psychology, Developmental subject area with Journal of Child
Psychology And Psychiatry, Autism Research and Developmental
Science increasing their Impact Factor’s by 5%, 14% and 18%
respectively. Nine Wiley published journals saw their 2013 Impact
Factors double, including World Englishes, International
Insolvency Review and Policy Studies Journal.
Highlights in Life, Earth and Environmental
Sciences:
Of the 290 Life Sciences journals indexed in the Journal Citation
Reports this year, 74 achieved a top ten ranking within at least one
subject category, with 92 top ten rankings overall. Wiley Life Science
journals were ranked number one within 7 JCR subject categories
including: Paleontology, Limnology, Neuroimaging, Fisheries,
Biodiversity & Conservation, Geography, Physical and Zoology.
Two Life Science journals have received their first Impact Factor this
year, Entomological Research and Wiley
Interdisciplinary Reviews-Developmental Biology.
The WIRES (Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews) portfolio continues to go
from strength to strength with WIREs Climate Changeincreasing
27% from 3.462 to 4.401 and Wiley Interdisciplinary
Reviews-Developmental Biology receiving its inaugural Impact factor
this year (1.414). WIRES titles now have seven journals indexed in JCR.
There were strong performances in Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
with the open access title Journal of Advances in Modelling
Earth Systems moving up three places and now ranked fourth in
the category (+25%/5.149) and Quarterly Journal of the Royal
Meteorological Society (+54%/5.131) moving up eight places and now
ranked fifth.
Fish and Fisheries which achieved an Impact Factor of 8.755
retained its position as the number one ranking journal in Fisheries.
Highlights in Health Sciences:
Seven journals are ranked number one in their category this year. These
include: CA – A Cancer Journal for Clinicians with an
Impact Factor of 162.500; Addiction with an Impact Factor of
4.596; Addiction Biology with an Impact Factor of 5.929;Psycho-oncology with
an Impact Factor of 4.044; Medical Education with an Impact
factor of 3.617; American Journal of Transplantation with an
Impact Factor of 6.19; for the first time, Head and Neck is
number one in its subject area with an Impact Factor of 3.006.
Other highlights include: Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics (+20.9%/5.478)
which is now in the top ten for Gastroenterology/Hepatology; the
British Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology (+3%/3.862)
ranking it 6th of 78 journals in the subject area and the European
Journal of Heart Failure which jumped from 17 to 10 in the Cardiac &
Cardiovascular Systems category (+25%/6.577) making it the number one
Heart Failure journal in the category. Other notable inclusions areArthritis
& Rheumatology; Arthritis Care & Research, both
which remain in the top ten of the Rheumatology category andWorldviews
on Evidence-Based Nursing which has jumped to number two in the
nursing category.
Wiley is the leading Publisher in Dentistry, Oral Surgery and Medicine
with 24 out of 82 titles (approximately 30%). Fifteen titles increased
in Impact Factor with five journals in the top ten, these include: Journal
of Clinical Periodontology (3),Clinical Oral Implants
Research (4), Molecular oral microbiology (7), Peridontology
2000 (6) and Clinical Implant Dentistry and Related
Research (9).
Wiley is also the leading publisher in the Veterinary Sciences category
with 23 out of 129 journals, four of which are ranked in the top ten. Transboundary
and Emerging Diseases is now the second ranked journal in this
category with an Impact Factor of 3.116.
Journal of the American Heart Association's one year Impact Factor is
2.882 and is ranked 47th among 125 journals in the Cardiac &
Cardiovascular Systems subject category. An open access title, JAHA
received a special one year Impact Factor based on citations in 2013 to
articles published in 2012 (the journal’s first year of publication).
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