Journal of Biology
Encyclopedia
The Journal of Biology was a scientific journal
published by BioMed Central
. It was launched in 2002 with the aim to provide an open-access alternative to the Top-tier Biology journals Nature
, Science
and Cell
. Because of stringent selection criteria, it published only a few research articles per year, in 2007, for instance, only four, with the rest being comment and short review articles.http://jbiol.com/articles/browse.asp?sort=Research%20article. Although many of JBiol research articles were highly cited, this was probably a main reason, why JBiol never reached the same recognition as its classic counterparts.
JBiol was never indexed by Thomson/Reuters ISI web of knowledge, and therefore didn't get an official impact factor
. According to an unofficial calculation in 2007, J Biol reached an impact factor of 20.1 (doi:10.1186/jbiol57).
After 8 years of publishing, and around 1yr after BioMed Central
was taken over by Springer
Journals, J. Biol. was discontinued in April 2010 by being amalgamated with the existing Biomed Central journal BMC Biology
.
Scientific journal
In academic publishing, a scientific journal is a periodical publication intended to further the progress of science, usually by reporting new research. There are thousands of scientific journals in publication, and many more have been published at various points in the past...
published by BioMed Central
BioMed Central
BioMed Central is a UK-based, for-profit scientific publisher specialising in open access journal publication. BMC, and its sister companies Chemistry Central and PhysMath Central, publish over 200 scientific journals. Most BMC journals are now published only online. BMC describes itself as the...
. It was launched in 2002 with the aim to provide an open-access alternative to the Top-tier Biology journals Nature
Nature
Nature, in the broadest sense, is equivalent to the natural world, physical world, or material world. "Nature" refers to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general...
, Science
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
and Cell
Cell (journal)
Cell is a peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing research papers across a broad range of disciplines within the life sciences. Areas covered include molecular biology, cell biology, systems biology, stem cells, developmental biology, genetics and genomics, proteomics, cancer research,...
. Because of stringent selection criteria, it published only a few research articles per year, in 2007, for instance, only four, with the rest being comment and short review articles.http://jbiol.com/articles/browse.asp?sort=Research%20article. Although many of JBiol research articles were highly cited, this was probably a main reason, why JBiol never reached the same recognition as its classic counterparts.
JBiol was never indexed by Thomson/Reuters ISI web of knowledge, and therefore didn't get an official impact factor
Impact factor
The impact factor, often abbreviated IF, is a measure reflecting the average number of citations to articles published in science and social science journals. It is frequently used as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal within its field, with journals with higher impact factors deemed...
. According to an unofficial calculation in 2007, J Biol reached an impact factor of 20.1 (doi:10.1186/jbiol57).
After 8 years of publishing, and around 1yr after BioMed Central
BioMed Central
BioMed Central is a UK-based, for-profit scientific publisher specialising in open access journal publication. BMC, and its sister companies Chemistry Central and PhysMath Central, publish over 200 scientific journals. Most BMC journals are now published only online. BMC describes itself as the...
was taken over by Springer
Springer Science+Business Media
- Selected publications :* Encyclopaedia of Mathematics* Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete * Graduate Texts in Mathematics * Grothendieck's Séminaire de géométrie algébrique...
Journals, J. Biol. was discontinued in April 2010 by being amalgamated with the existing Biomed Central journal BMC Biology
BMC Biology
BMC Biology is an online open access scientific journal that publishes original, peer-reviewed research in all fields of biology, together with opinion and comment articles. The journal is part of a series of BMC journals published by the UK-based publisher BioMed Central...
.