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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Impact Factor for Developmental Biology Journals

I became interested in which Developmental Biology Journals have the best impact factors (IF). The impact factor is a measure of “popularity” for scientific journals that is based on the average amount of citations the journal makes in the span of two years. I understand the latest IFs available are from 2008.

I had regarded the journal –Development- as the best developmental journal in my mind. I was surprise to learn the following:

Journal IF
Annual Rev Cell and Development 22.731
Genes and Development 13.623
Developmental Cell 12.882
Curr Top Developmental Biology 7.827
Development 6.812
Developmental Biology 4.416
Dev Dynamics 3.018