With apologies for cross-posting
25th June 2010, Cambridge, England, UK & New York, USA
For immediate release
Cambridge University Press has again hit a high in the recent Thomson
Reuters 2009 Journal Citation Reports?
with CUP titles Behavioral and Brain Sciences and Microscopy and
Microanalysis (Published for the Microscopy
Society of America) both ranked as number 1 in their categories for a
second consecutive year. Overall,
Cambridge journals have also seen a robust average increase in Impact
Factor of almost 14%.
These strong performances are consistent across our publishing programme.
Cambridge?s Humanities and
Social Science journals saw an average increase of 18%, performing well
against a 4.3% average increase in
the SSCI, and our Science, Technology and Medicine journals increased by
10% in comparison to a 2.8%
average increase in the SCI.
Over a quarter of Cambridge journals ranked appear within the top 10 of
their categories including Journal of
Fluid Mechanics, Proceedings of the Nutrition Society (Published on behalf
of The Nutrition Society),
Psychological Medicine, Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics, American
Political Science Review (Published for the
American Political Science Association), The China Quarterly (Published
for the School of Oriental and African
Studies), International Organization (Published on behalf of the
International Organization Foundation) and The
Journal of African History.
There are seven Cambridge Journals receiving Impact Factors for the first
time, including Journal of K-Theory
(Published for Independent Scholarly Online and Print Publishing), The
Review of Symbolic Logic (Published for
the Association of Symbolic Logic), European Review of Economic History
(Published for the European Historical
Economics Society), Journal of African Law (Published for the School of
Oriental and African Studies), Japanese
Journal of Political Science, Language Variation and Change and Nordic
Journal of Linguistics (Published for The
Nordic Association of Linguists).
High Performances from Individual Journals
In the SCI, two journals in particular saw considerable increases in their
Impact Factors. Glasgow Mathematical
Journal (Published for the Glasgow Mathematical Journal Trust) rose by
128% to 0.629 compared with an
average increase in Mathematics of 12.4%. Neuron Glia Biology gained an
Impact Factor of 1.938 - an increase
of 107% compared to an average increase of 0.2% in the Neurosciences
category. In the SSCI, the Impact
Factors of American Political Science Review (Published for the American
Political Science Association),
Continuity and Change and Language and Society all rose by over 80% each.
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