8. Do BioMed Central journals have Impact Factors and are they citation tracked?
Yes; for any journal to have an Impact Factor, however, it must be tracked by Thomson Reuters (ISI) for three years. Although many BioMed Central journals are tracked by Thomson Reuters, others are still relatively new. The tables below show those journals that are already tracked by Thomson Reuters (ISI) and so already have Impact Factors, and journals that are due Impact Factors for which we have calculated their unofficial Impact Factors. Note that in several cases the figures are artificially low, as they are based on a single year of citation data rather than the usual two. Thomson Reuters (ISI) is currently considering additional BioMed Central journals for tracking.
Two other citation tracking services (Scopus and Google Scholar) both track citations for all BioMed Central journals.
The SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) is also a free alternative journal citation-metric based on citation information from Scopus.
- Journals with Impact Factors
- Journals being tracked by Thomson Reuters
- Unofficial Impact Factors for other BioMed Central journals
- SCImago journal ranking
Journals with Impact Factors
Journals currently covered by Thomson Reuters (ISI)
| Journal | Impact Factor due | Unofficial 2010 Impact Factor |
|---|---|---|
| BMC Biophysics | June 2014 | |
| BMC Ecology | June 2015 | 1.96 |
| BMC Endocrine Disorders | June 2012 | |
| BMC International Health and Human Rights | June 2012 | |
| BMC Medical Ethics | June 2012 | 1.93 |
| BMC Pregnancy & Childbirth | June 2012 | 2.09 |
| BMC Surgery | June 2012 | 1.40 |
| Cancer Cell International | June 2012 | 1.90 |
| Cell Communication and Signalling | June 2012 | 4.03 |
| Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome | June 2012 | 1.32 |
| Globalization and Health | June 2012 | 2.07 |
| Gut Pathogens | June 2012 | |
| Head & Neck Oncology | June 2012 | |
| Italian Journal of Pediatrics | June 2012 | |
| Journal of Cheminformatics | June 2012 | 1.80 |
| Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine | June 2012 | 1.28 |
| Journal of Foot & Ankle Research | June 2012 | |
| Journal of Nanobiotechnology | June 2014 | 4.59 |
| Journal of Ovarian Research | June 2012 | 2.10 |
| Pediatric Rheumatology | June 2012 | 1.74 |
| Stem Cell Research & Therapy | June 2012 |
Unofficial Impact Factors* for other BioMed Central journals
* Unofficial Impact Factors
For journals that have not been tracked for long enough to have an Impact Factor, or are not yet tracked by Thomson Reuters (ISI), it is nonetheless possible to calculate an unofficial Impact Factor, which we have done for some journals.
Unofficial 2010 Impact Factors were established by dividing the number of times articles published in 2008 and 2009 were cited in 2010, based on a search of the Science Citation Index database, by the number of articles published during that period.
SCImago Journal Ranking
The SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) is a free alternative journal citation-metric based on citation information from Scopus. All BioMed Central journals are included in Scopus within a year of launch, and so the SJR rankings provide a more comprehensive picture of the impact of BioMed Central's journals than the Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports. For more information about SCImago, and the SCImago rankings of specific BioMed Central journals see this BioMed Central blog post.
The table below shows a selection of BioMed Central journals and their SJR ranking, for SJR data on other BioMed Central journals, look up the journal on the SCImago website.
| 2010 SJR Rank (out of 17,124) |
Title | 2010 SJR | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 104 | Genome Biology | 1.88 | |
| 310 | Cell Division | 1.36 | |
| 311 | Neural Development | 1.125 | 1st of 14 in Development Neuroscience |
| 291 | Breast Cancer Research | 1.102 | |
| 256 | BMC Biology | 1.05 | |
| BMC Medical Genomics | 0.858 | ||
| Biology Direct | 0.811 | ||
| 503 | Genome Medicine | 0.775 | |
| Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases | 0.74 | 1 of 114 in Pharmacology (medical) | |
| 284 | Retrovirology | 0.73 | 4 of 55 in Virology; 4 of 103 in Infectious Diseases |
| Journal of Neuroinflammation | 0.72 | 1 of 46 in Neurology | |
| 526 | BMC Developmental Biology | 0.715 | |
| Plant Methods | 0.709 | ||
| BMC Systems Biology | 0.696 | 2 of 87 in Modeling and Simulation | |
| Molecular Cancer | 0.69 | ||
| 462 | BMC Genomics | 0.67 | |
| BioData Mining | 0.236 | 1 of 70 in Computational Mathematics | |
| Source Code for Biology and Medicine | 0.383 | 1 of 34 of Health Informatics; 1 of 43 of Information Systems and Mangement | |
| 570 | Molecular Pain | 0.656 | 1 of 104 in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine |
| Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance | 0.656 | 1 of 32 of Radiological and Ultrasound Technology | |
| Journal of Biological Engineering | 0.474 | 1 of 60 of Enviromental Engineering | |
| International Journal of Health Geographics | 0.165 | 1 of 182 of Business, Management and Accounting (misc) | |
| Globalization and Health | 0.447 | 1 of 121 of Health Policy | |
| Critical Care | 0.39 | 1 of 57 in Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine | |
| BMC Medical Ethics | 0.12 | 1 of 10 in Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects |
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