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Journal of Cheminformatics accepted for Impact Factor tracking
We are pleased to announce that Journal of Cheminformatics has been accepted for tracking by Thomson Reuters and is expected to receive its first Impact Factor later this year.
This development comes after an exciting year in which the journal published its first thematic series of papers covering PubChem3D, RDF Technologies in Chemistry, and the Visions of a Semantic Molecular Future symposium, along with high profile articles on important cheminformatics tools, such as Open Babel and CDK-Taverna.
The journal’s standing in its field can be seen in the 2011 SCImago Journal Rank, which places it 4th out of 194 journals in the computer science applications category. Now that it has been accepted for Impact Factor tracking, we look forward to seeing even more growth and development over the coming years and we would like to thank our editors, authors and reviewers for their help in establishing Journal of Cheminformatics as a leading open access publication.
Posted by Bailey Fallon at 15:12 Comments (4)
Bailey and everyone else involved with the journal (disclaimer: I'm on the editorial board), congratulations!
To me as an author and reader, however, the calculation of the Journal Impact Factor is less important. The true value to me is that the journal is now indexed, and that we can track in what literature JChemInf papers are cited.
Posted by Egon Willighagen on January 25, 2012 at 10:59 AM GMT #
I agree 100% with Egon. The more sources which track citations, the better. I've seen that JChemInf has traction in Google Scholar and Scopus, so it's nice that it will now show in Web of Science.
(I admit a bias. I'm coming up for tenure, so adding to my metrics is helpful.)
Posted by Geoff Hutchison on January 25, 2012 at 03:24 PM GMT #
Congratulations to all concerned!
Posted by Christopher Leonard on January 26, 2012 at 12:39 PM GMT #
Congratulations!
This will boost confidence in everyone involved in and around the field/journal.
Posted by Syed Asad Rahman on February 02, 2012 at 11:00 AM GMT #