Impacting our young

Impacting our young.

M uch has been written about impact factors, how they are calculated, and what they do and do not measure. Briefly, the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) impact factor is calculated for each journal as the number of citations per paper published in that journal in the prior 2 years. When the 2-year impact factor was designed, it was intended to be an aid to librarians making decisions ...

How is impact factor impacting our research?

The impact factor (IF) of an journal is a measure reflecting the average number of citations to recent articles published in the journal. It is frequently used as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal within its field, with journals with higher impact factors deemed to be more important than those with lower ones. However it is not a perfect metric and has its own limitations. Journa...

Eating or Feeding Our Young: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Marriage shrines and worms impacting our understanding of mammalian fertilization

Genetic approaches in C. elegans are complementing the biochemical and antibody based strategies traditionally used to study the molecular underpinnings of fertilization in other organisms. A pair of worm studies, one based on forward genetics and one based on reverse genetics, converge on the sperm immunoglobulin superfamily molecule SPE-45. Loss of spe-45 function leads to the production of s...

Cancer: Save Our (Young) Skins!

Two landmark studies of cell signaling, by RNA interference and phosphoproteomics, provide complementary global views of the pathways downstream of receptor kinases, including those regulated by Erks. Published: 1 February 2007 Genome Biology 2007, 8:202 (doi:10.1186/gb-2007-8-1-202) The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at http://genomebiology.com/2...