Sci-Bytes> Journals Ranked by Impact: Immunology
Week of May 9, 2010
Rank | 2008 Impact Factor | Impact 2005-09 | Impact 1981-2009 |
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1 |
Annual Review of Immunology (41.06) |
Annual Review of Immunology (99.23) |
Annual Review of Immunology (335.72) |
2 |
Nature Reviews Immunology (30.01) |
Nature Reviews Immunology (61.83) |
Advances in Immunology (116.18) |
3 |
Nature Immunology (25.11) |
Nature Immunology (52.20) |
Journal of Experimental Medicine (111.84) |
4 |
Immunity (20.58) |
Immunity (38.51) |
Immunity (110.58) |
5 |
Journal of Experimental Medicine (15.46) |
Journal of Experimental Medicine (35.34) |
Nature Reviews Immunology (108.29) |
6 |
Immunological Reviews (11.76) |
Immunological Reviews (22.36) |
Nature Immunology (102.97) |
7 |
Current Opinion in Immunology (10.46) |
Trends in Immunology (21.31) |
Immunology Today (93.21) |
8 |
Trends in Immunology (9.91) |
Current Opinion in Immunology (19.68) |
Immunological Reviews (58.87) |
9 |
Journal of Allergy & Clinical Immunology (9.77) |
Seminars in Immunology (17.25) |
Current Opinion in Immunology (49.65) |
10 |
Seminars in Immunology (9.11) |
Springer Seminars in Immunopathology (16.58) |
Journal of Immunology (49.00) |
The above table compares the citation impact of journals in a given field as measured over three different time spans. The left-hand column ranks journals based on their 2008 "impact factor," as enumerated in the current edition of Journal Citations Report®. The 2008 impact factor is calculated by taking the number of all current citations to source items published in a journal over the previous two years and dividing by the number of articles published in the journal during the same period--in other words, a ratio between citations and recent citable items published. The rankings in the next two columns show impact over longer time spans, based on figures from Journal Performance Indicators. In these columns, total citations to a journal's published papers are divided by the total number of papers that the journal published, producing a citations-per-paper impact score over a five-year period (middle column) and a 29-year period (right-hand column). SOURCE: Journal Citations Report and Journal Performance Indicators.