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Open Access journals get impressive impact factors

...y BioMed Central also saw their impact factors and rankings improve. BMC Infectious Diseases jumped from 1.25 to 2.07. BMC Cell Biology, with an impact factor of 2.62, is now in the top half of the cell biology listing. The impact factor for BMC Health Services Research almost doubled, from 0.68 to 1.23. BMC ...

'Bionic' arm gives amputee sense of touch

...y BioMed Central also saw their impact factors and rankings improve. BMC Infectious Diseases jumped from 1.25 to 2.07. BMC Cell Biology, with an impact factor of 2.62, is now in the top half of the cell biology listing. The impact factor for BMC Health Services Research almost doubled, from 0.68 to 1.23. BMC ...

Impressive new Impact Factors for BioMed Central's open-access journals

...y 1.46. Dr Cockerill continues, "These impressive rankings demonstrate that the BMC-series is publishing solid research that is being widely cited, across many different areas." Twenty-five journals published by BioMed Central now have Impact Factors, and the average Impact Factor for a BioMed Central journa...

Snakes' virtual glasses, leopard spots and all-optical transistors

...han traditional format tests at assessing relative rankings of students in a class, C) effectively eliminate student complaints about grading fairness, D) all of the above. (Answer: D)...

Human preference for other species could determine whether they survive

... just based on logistics," he said. The popularity rankings were similar across all four books, he added, which suggests that human preferences could be widely shared. The work has been published in the online edition of the journal Human Ecology, and will appear in an upcoming print edition. Color is...

Are journal rankings distorting science?

...is week’s BMJ raises concerns over whether journal rankings (known as impact factors) are distorting publishing and science. The impact factor is a measure of the citations to papers in scientific journals. It was developed as a simple measure of quality and has become a proxy for the importance of a journal...

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