Springer is expanding its share of impact factor journals
15.07.2013 11:45
According to the current Journal Citation Reports® (JCR) 2012 from Thomson Reuters, 46 Springer journals were listed with an impact factor for the first time last year. Springer can therefore point to a total of 1,539 scientific publications in its journal program that have an impact factor. Many of them are published by scientific societies. With an increase of 86 percent, Springer has recorded an equally notable increase in the increase in citations to its journals. More than half of its specialist journals, namely 55 percent, were able to increase their impact factor. This development reflects an increase in the quality and reach of Springer magazines.
Of the Springer journals listed for the first time with an impact factor, 21 are open access journals, including journals published by BioMed Central. The bottom line is that Springer alone publishes 163 open access publications with an impact factor. This corresponds to 41 percent of the Springer Open Access portfolio. These figures underline the important role of Open Access in scientific publishing and are particularly meaningful for Springer as the world's largest Open Access publisher.
“We at Springer are very satisfied with the positive development of our magazines, as shown in JCR is documented,” says Peter Hendriks, President of STM Publishing, Springer. “Not only with the positive overall result, but we are pleased that almost half of the new journals added with an impact factor are open access publications. This confirms how important peer-reviewed open access journals are for the scientific community. Springer sees itself as having a special obligation to make scientifically proven knowledge freely accessible to researchers and students worldwide through open access publications.”
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