New impact factor reflects increased quality

New impact factor reflects increased quality.

New impact factor number reflects sustained and enhanced growth.

Neuro-Oncology is delighted to announce that our 2010 Impact Factor, a metric used to assess journal quality, is 5.483, a substantial increase from the previous year's Impact Factor (4.984). The 2010 number reflects the citation rate for the years 2008 and 2009. Of note, the journal increased its publication frequency from quarterly to bimonthly in 2008, so we are very pleased that our rapid gr...

Lusitanian toadfish song reflects male quality.

Lusitanian toadfish males that provide parental care rely on acoustic signals (the boatwhistle) to attract females to their nest. We test the hypothesis that male quality, namely male size and condition that are relevant for parental success, is reflected in vocal activity and boatwhistle characteristics and thus advertised to females. We recorded 22 males over a week during the peak of the bre...

Congress in Porto September 2010 and increased impact factor.

Meeting up with colleagues from all over the world is important for the progress of our profession, getting updated and building our professional network. In order to provide possibilities to really discuss rather than engage in inactive listening, the programme includes symposia, keynote lectures, workshops, controversy debates, breakfast and lunch forums including ‘meet the professor’ opportu...

Circulation research impact factor sets new record.

The intent, therefore, is to provide a metric for the number of times an article is cited, on average, in the first 1 to 2 years after it appears. However, close scrutiny of the formula reveals that the factor might be artificially inflated in journals that routinely publish abstracts. Citations to abstracts are counted in the numerator, but not in the denominator. Our journal has not published...