Spring 2008

• TheScientificWorldJOURNAL has an Impact!

• Board member changes for 2008

• There is still time to get a great deal on a 2008 subscription!

• Special Issues from TSWJ

TheScientificWorldJOURNAL has an Impact!

We have just received from Thomson Scientific the raw data of citations to articles published in TSWJ. As recent editorials and papers have argued, the data are often seriously flawed but initial analysis shoes that the average number of times cited articles were cited in the next 2 calendar years are:

This is a very reasonable number for a general journal. The decrease in 2007 over 2006 is not surprising in that with an expanding article base citations in the first calendar year tend to be higher than in the second calendar year. So the larger number of 2006 articles cited in 2007 dilutes the increasing number of citations to 2005 articles during 2007. In addition, Thomson Scientific does not count citations to articles within the same calendar year, and there are many of those, and it does not count citations to journals in news articles such as Science News (see under Neural Modeling here:

http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20080301/bob9.asp with references here: http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20080301/bob9ref.asp)

If you would like to know more about Impact Factors and the alternatives then please attend the 2nd European Conference on Scientific Publishing, 4-6 September 2008, Oslo, Norway.

Further reading:

The use and misuse of bibliometric indices in evaluating scholarly performance: http://www.int-res.com/journals/esep/theme-sections/the-use-and-misuse-of-bibliometric-indices-in-evaluating-scholarly-performance/

Editorial in J Cell Biology: "Show me the Data"
http://www.jcb.org/cgi/content/full/179/6/1091

Board member changes for 2008

Rudy Tanzi of the Mass General Hospital joined as Principal Editor for the Aging domain
Mike Allen of the University of Florida joined as Principal Editor for the Freshwater Systems domain
Adele Murrell of the Cambridge Research Institute of Cancer Research UK, joins as co-Principal Editor for the Genes & Genomics and Associate Editor for the Oncology domains and the Cell Biology & Cancer cluster.
Howard Browman of the Institute of Marine Research, Storebø, Norway, joins our editorial network as an Editor of a number of domains in our TSW Environment Cluster

Whom do you think should be asked to join our ever-expanding editorial network?

There is still time to get a great deal on a 2008 subscription!

Please tell your librarian to take full advantage of the generous offer to subscribe for future years at 5% off the 2007 subscription rate. That's right we've kept our 2007 subscription rates for 2008! Institutes where TSW has authors, editors and referees are entitled to a 10% discount. Contact Tara at tretzlaff@thescientificworld.com for information.

Special Issues from TSWJ

TheScientificWorldJOURNAL continues to publish outstanding special issues which focus on key topics, guided by high profile Guest Editors and featuring reviews from well respected authors. Please let us know of experts in your field who may be interested in taking on a short term role with the journal such as this. Alternatively you may like to be a Guest Editor of a special issue yourself. As with commissioning reviews, you provide the suggestions and we do all of the correspondence and chasing up.

Keep an eye out for our upcoming special issues and those that have recently published. We invite members of our editorial network to suggest topics and editors for these popular resources.

Partner organizations:

We are pleased to inform our readers about the upcoming Keystone symposia and the forthcoming conference on Antibodies in Drug Discovery and Development organized by Active Communications International (ACI) Europe.