Impact analysis
14 Dec 2015
Quality and Impact Analysis: the Field of Frontiers in Neuroscience
For the second year on a row, Frontiers is the #1 most cited and largest open-access publisher in the category of Neuroscience.
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Frontiers news
25 Nov 2015
Quality and Impact Analysis: Frontiers in Physiology 2
Frontiers in Physiology an Impact Factor of 4.031 and is the #1 most cited open-access Physiology journal.
Frontiers news
25 Nov 2015
Quality and Impact Analysis: Frontiers in Psychology 2
For two years in a row, Frontiers in Psychology is the largest and the #2 most-cited psychology journal in the world.
Frontiers news
24 Nov 2015
Quality and Impact Analysis: Frontiers in Microbiology 2
Frontiers in Microbiology has an Impact Factor of 4.165 and is the 2nd most-cited open-access journal in Microbiology.
Frontiers news
24 Nov 2015
Quality and Impact Analysis: Frontiers in Plant Science 2
Frontiers in Plant Science has an Impact Factor of 4.495 and is the largest and the most cited open-access journal in Plant Science.
Impact analysis
20 Nov 2015
Quality and Impact Analysis: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience has an Impact Factor of 3.634 and is the #1 most-cited journal in psychology.
Impact analysis
05 Nov 2015
Quality and Impact Analysis: Frontiers in Neuroscience
By Pascal Rocha da Silva, Frontiers analyst The field of Frontiers in Neuroscience, established in 2008, has become the #1 most cited and #1 largest Open Access publisher of Neuroscience and the 3rd most cited and 4th largest Neuroscience publisher overall. The impact factor (IF), defined as the total number of citations divided by the number of citable articles over a two-year period, is the gold standard of journal quality (not of an individual scientist). It was formally established by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) in 1975. As the IF can be heavily skewed by a few highly cited papers, total citations generated over the same two-year period provide a more accurate measure of the overall influence or impact of the articles published by a journal in a field. Analysis within the JCR category of Neuroscience There are 252 journals listed within the category of “Neurosciences” in the 2014 Journal Citation Reports (JCR), provided by Thomson Reuters in 2015. There are 36 Gold Open Access journals indexed in the 2014 JCR. Frontiers is structured by academic fields (e.g. Neuroscience, Psychology, Plant Science, etc.) with specialty sections (e.g. Developmental Psychology). In the case of the field of Frontiers in Neuroscience, […]