Elsevier Announces 2011 Journal Impact Factor Highlights

Elsevier Announces 2011 Journal Impact Factor Highlights PR Newswire AMSTERDAM, July 17, 2012 AMSTERDAM, July 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced ®the highlights of its journal Impact Factor performance in 2011. According to the 2011 Journal Citation Reports (JCR) published by Thomson Reuters, Elsevier saw 58% of its journal Impact Factors increase from 2010 to 2011, compared to 54% for non-Elsevier journals. Elsevier journals top the rankings in 57 subject categories. Nearly 40% of Elsevier's 1,600 journals in the JCR are in the top 10% of their subject category, with 188 journals ranked in the top 3%. Five Elsevier journals have seen a decade of continuous Impact Factor increases: Journal of Ethnopharmacology; Journal of Materials Processing Technology; Carbon; Electrochemistry Communications; Renewable Energy. Martin Tanke, Managing Director Journals at Elsevier, said "We value these results as they are an acknowledgement of the excellent performance by the authors, reviewers and editors we work with. In addition, we believe these outcomes are the result of our continuous focus on quality. It remains important however to note that the Impact Factor is just one perspective on a journal's quality and influence.