Sci-Bytes> Journals Ranked by Impact: Infectious Diseases
Week of December 19, 2010
Rank | 2009 Impact Factor | Impact 2005-00 | Impact 1981-2009 |
---|---|---|---|
1 |
Lancet Infectious Diseases (15.58) |
Lancet Infectious Diseases (24.31) |
Journal of Infectious Diseases (38.40) |
2 |
Clinical Infectious Diseases (8.20) |
Clinical Infectious Diseases (14.61) |
Lancet Infectious Diseases (36.11) |
3 |
Emerging Infectious Diseases (6.79) |
Journal of Infectious Diseases (12.13) |
Infection and Immunity (32.86) |
4 |
Journal of Infectious Diseases (5.87) |
Emerging Infectious Diseases (11.63) |
AIDS (30.55) |
5 |
AIDS (4.91) |
AIDS (10.75) |
J. of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (28.51) |
6 |
Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases (4.72) |
Infection and Immunity (9.69) |
Clinical Infectious Diseases (27.46) |
7 |
Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (4.35) |
Clinical & Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology (8.94) |
Infectious Agents and Disease (24.08) |
8 |
Antiviral Therapy (4.32) |
Antiviral Therapy (8.88) |
Emerging Infectious Diseases (23.39) |
9 |
JAIDS – J. of Acquired Immune Deficiency
Syndromes (4.21) |
AIDS Reviews (8.84) |
AIDS Research & Human Retroviruses (17.66) |
10 |
Infection and Immunity (4.21) |
JAIDS – J. of Acquired Immune Deficiency
Syndromes (8.55) |
Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (17.65) |
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 2009 "impact factor," as enumerated in the current edition of Journal Citations Report®.
The 2009 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.
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