In the beginning, during the late 1950s, it was just an innocent idea in Eugene Garfield’s head. A Philadelphia researcher who described himself as a “documentation consultant,” Mr. Garfield spent his ...

Thomson Reuters vows to be clearer in the future about the "impact factor," an annual ranking of more than 10,000 scientific journals The most misused metric in science is getting a makeover — ...

But how different are these new measures of journal quality? The five subject categories in the JCR with the highest percentage of records retrieved by a recent nanotech search query 6 included 523 ...

image: With an increase of 27%, The Journal of Nuclear Medicine has again achieved the highest impact factor ever in its history, ranking third among all medical journals worldwide. view more The ...