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Genome Medicine leads the way in a long list of BioMed Central journals that have recently been accepted for Impact Factor tracking by Thomson Reuters. The newly tracked journals will soon appear on Web of Science, and should receive their first Impact Factors in June this year.
Editor of Genome Medicine, Rebecca Furlong, said "We are delighted that Genome Medicine's success will be recognized with an Impact Factor, and would like to thank our Section Editors, Editorial Board, and all our authors, reviewers and readers for their support."
The following journals, whose growing prominence and reputation in their respective fields have been endorsed, were also recently accepted for tracking:
 AIDS Research and Therapy
Alzheimer's Research & Therapy
Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials
Annals of General Psychiatry
BMC Anesthesiology
BMC Geriatrics
BMC Oral Health
BMC Pulmonary Medicine
BMC Urology
BMC Women's Health
Head & Face Medicine
Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
Reproductive Health
World Journal of Emergency Surgery
In addition, the following journals already in Science Citation Index Expanded have now been 'promoted' by Thomson Reuters and from 2013 will be part of Science Citation Index:
BMC Biology
BMC Medical Ethics
BMC Veterinary Research
Implementation Science
Particle Fibre Toxicology
Full details on indexing of all BioMed Central journals is available on our website.
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Science, Science 20, National Geographic, Discovery Magazine, and Live Science all wrote about how plants are affected by spaceflight. This ground breaking research (should that be space breaking) from the International Space Station, and in BMC Plant Biology, found that contrary to common knowledge gravity is not essential for correct root orientation. Click here to view the video.
Appearing in the Daily Mail, Yahoo, MSN, Metro, Huffington Post, and discussed on the NHS website, research in BMC Public Health described how Second–hand smoke, even due to maternal smoking while pregnant, significantly increases the risk of invasive meningococcal disease, a major cause of bacterial meningitis. |
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The launch of the Journal of Eating Disorders marks a significant development in this area of research; as it is the first open access journal of its kind. Journal of Eating Disorders is co–edited by Prof Phillipa Hay, University of Western Sydney and Prof Stephen Touyz, University of Sydney together with an editorial board of prominent experts. |
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A new thematic series will be published in EvoDevo and Parasites & Vectors with the aim of bridging the gap between parasitic and free–living flatworms. The series is guest edited by Pete Olson and aims to emphasize three key topics in contemporary flatworm research: the 'neoblast' stem cell system, developmental and signalling pathways, and genome evolution. The series is now accepting submissions, for more information please contact Pete Olson. |
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| In a Forum article in the Cell geometry series, ten experts in ten different systems explain why it matters what size a cell is, and offer ten different answers on how it is controlled – probably all of them right. |
| The evolutionary loss of eyes is a process repeated in different cavefish populations, and both neutral and adaptive explanations have been put forward. A study of genetic linkage in an Astyanax population suggests that an antagonostic relationship between eye development and sensors for detecting vibration – an important behaviour in the dark cave environment – is responsible. |
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Forum
What determines cell size?
Wallace F Marshall, Kevin D Young, Matthew Swaffer, Elizabeth Wood, Paul Nurse, Akatsuki Kimura, Joseph Frankel, John Wallingford, Virginia Walbot, Xian Qu, Adrienne HK Roeder
BMC Biology 2012, 10:101 (14 December 2012) |
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Research article
Evolution of an adaptive behavior and its sensory receptors promotes eye regression in blind cavefish
Masato Yoshizawa, Yoshiyuki Yamamoto, Kelly E O'Quin, William R Jeffery
BMC Biology 2012, 10:108 (27 December 2012) |
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BMC Public Health has published meeting abstracts from the 6th Postgraduate Forum on Health Systems and Policies. Melaka, Malaysia. 21–22 May 2012. |
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Journal of Translational Medicine has published the abstracts from the 7th European Workshop on Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Diseases.
Noordwijk aan Zee, the Netherlands. 28–30 November 2012. |
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BMC Systems Biology has published proceedings from the 23rd International Conference on Genome Informatics (GIW 2012).
Tainan, Taiwan. 12–14 December 2012. |
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BMC Bioinformatics and BMC Genomics have published proceedings from the Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNet) Eleventh International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB2012).
Bangkok, Thailand. 3–5 October 2012. |
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