2008-06-20

Increasing Impact

The Materials Science journals published by Wiley-VCH again have achieved very good ratings. The recently published 2007 ISI Impact Factors show several of the journals listed among the highest ranking and most cited journals in their respective fields:

Advanced Materials and Advanced Functional Materials
With their focus on exciting fields of research including nanomaterials, surface science, energy materials, and organic electronics, the influence and quality of Wiley’s leading materials science journals, Advanced Materials and Advanced Functional Materials, are reflected in higher Impact Factors for both journals. Advanced Materials, publishing a mixture of reviews and rapid communications, has a 2007 IF of 8.191, making it one of the most influential journals in the field. Advanced Functional Materials maintains its status as the top full paper journal in materials science, with an 11% increase in impact factor to 7.496.

Advanced Engineering Materials
The Impact Factor for the leading engineering materials science journal, Advanced Engineering Materials, also increased, to an all-time high of 1.463, reflecting its importance in the materials and engineering community.

Small
With its increased impact factor of 6.408 for 2007, Small continues to be among the top multidisciplinary journals covering a broad spectrum of topics at the nano- and microscale at the interface of materials science, chemistry, physics, engineering, medicine, and biology.

Macromolecular Journals and Plasma Processes and Polymers
Macromol. Rapid Commun. enjoys further increases in Impact Factor (3.383) and total citations (20% increase), confirming MRC's position as one of the leading journals in polymer science. In addition, the significantly increased Immediacy Index of 0.787 ranks MRC #1 among all journals publishing original results in the field, corroborating that MRC is the journal of choice for fastest dissemination of high-priority research results.

With a further increased Impact Factor of 2.046, Macromol. Chem. Phys. confirms its established position among the top journals in polymer science.

Macromol. Biosci. celebrates another significantly increased Impact Factor with a new value of 2.831, thereby confirming its position among the top 10 polymer journals while also being ranked among the top 5 biomaterials journals.

Macromol. Theory Simul. enjoys a significantly increased Impact Factor of 1.792, putting MTS back into the top 20 list of all journals publishing original results in polymer science.

Macromol. Mater. Eng. has stabilized its Impact Factor at 1.368, while increasing the number of total citations by more than 20%.

Macromol. React. Eng. in its first year celebrates an Immediacy Index of 0.449, making it one of the top 10 polymer science journals by immediacy.

Plasma Process. Polym. has reached a new Impact Factor of 2.132, confirming PPP's position among the top 10 polymer journals and also its leading position in low-temperature plasma science.

The editors of all above journals would like to thank their Authors, Referees, and Editorial Board Members whose support and encouragement have made these successful developments possible.