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Latest Journal
Impact Factors Released for 2014
The journal impact
factors covering approximately 12,000 journals for 2014 have been
released by Thompson Reuters. The impact factor (IF) is a measure of
how frequently the average article in a journal is cited in a
particular year. The highest impact factor—115.840 was achieved by
Ca—A Cancer Journal for Physicians on the basis of 18,594 total cites.
The second highest impact factor was for the New England Journal of
Medicine which earned a 55.873 based on 268,652 cites. The most cites
were earned by Nature at 617,363 which garnered an IF of 41.456
The
International Journal of Epidemiology retained its lead position with
the highest IF of all the epidemiology journals in the public health
category. Below are the impact factors for epidemiology and public
health journals as well as a few well-known general medical journals.
These IF results were achieved by only 4,000 of the approximately
12,000 journals covered. All remaining 8,000 journals had impact
factors below 1.870.
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Journal Category |
Journal Name |
2014 IF |
Total Cites |
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General Medical |
Ca—A Cancer
Journal for Physicians |
115.840 |
18,594 |
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New England
Journal of Medicine |
55.873 |
268,652 |
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Lancet
|
45.217 |
185,361 |
|
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Nature |
41.456 |
617,363 |
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Journal of the
American Medical Association |
35.289 |
126,479 |
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Science |
33.611 |
557,558 |
|
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British
Medical Journal |
17.445 |
89,031 |
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Epi &
Public Health |
International
Journal of Epidemiology |
9.176 |
16,999 |
|
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Environmental
Health Perspectives |
7.977 |
34,489 |
|
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Emerging
Infectious Disease |
6.751 |
24,477 |
|
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Epidemiologic
Reviews |
6.667 |
3,063 |
|
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Annual Review
of Public Health |
6.469 |
4,090 |
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Epidemiology |
6.196 |
10,623 |
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European
Journal of Epidemiology |
5.339 |
5,316 |
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American
Journal of Epidemiology |
5.230 |
35,307 |
|
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Bulletin of
WHO |
5.089 |
12,342 |
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American
Journal of Public Health |
4.552 |
29,771 |
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Infection
Control and Hospital Epidemiology |
4.175 |
10,112 |
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Epidemiology
and Psychiatric Science |
3.907 |
339 |
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Journal of
Epidemiology & Community Health |
3.501 |
11,539 |
|
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Environmental
Health |
3.372 |
2,681 |
|
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Paediatric and
Perinatal Epidemiology |
3.131 |
2,650 |
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Journal of
Epidemiology |
3.022 |
1,698 |
|
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Cancer
Epidemiology |
2.711 |
1,567 |
|
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International
Journal of Public Health |
2.701 |
1,422 |
|
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Genetic
Epidemiology |
2.597 |
2,943 |
|
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European
Journal of Public Health |
2.591 |
3,982 |
|
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Neuroepidemiology |
2.558 |
2,562 |
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Social
Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology |
2.537 |
5,948 |
|
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Epidemiology
and Infection |
2.535 |
7,241 |
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Preventing
Chronic Disease |
2.123 |
2,633 |
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Journal of
Public Health |
2.039 |
1,555 |
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Community
Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology |
2.025 |
3,709 |
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Annals of
Epidemiology |
2.000 |
5,522 |
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Australian and
New Zealand Journal of Public Health |
1.980 |
2,613 |
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Journal of the
American Statistical Association |
1.979 |
25,196 |
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Injury
Prevention |
1.891 |
2,407 |
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Epidemics |
1.870 |
341 |
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