New Impact Factors for BioMed Central journals

Eleven journals published by BioMed Central, the open access publisher, received their first Impact Factor this month.

• Genome Biology, BioMed Central's flagship title covering biology in the post-genomic era, has been assessed as having an Impact Factor of 9.71. The journal's first Impact Factor places it in the top five of research journals in the highly competitive Genetics and Heredity field, and the 4th most cited journal in Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology.
• Malaria Journal, with a first Impact Factor of 2.14, is the number two journal in the Tropical Medicine field, and number five in the Parasitology category.
• BMC Developmental Biology, with an Impact Factor of 5.41, is ranked at number six in the developmental biology field.
• BMC Structural Biology enters the Biophysics category at number eight, with an Impact Factor of 5.00.
• BMC Evolutionary Biology's Impact Factor of 4.45 is the 6th most highly cited journal in the evolutionary biology category.
• BMC Biotechnology now has an Impact Factor of 3.05,
• BMC Neuroscience 2.73,
• BMC Microbiology 2.18,
• BMC Gastroenterology 1.46.

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