Thursday, October 29, 2009

What is Breast Cancer Research's Impact Factor?

This rating was given in the journal citation report for 2008 (published in June 2009). This is an impressive rating for a journal that was launched as recently as 1999, and Breast Cancer Research ranks 2nd amongst journals in the field of breast cancer.

All research articles published in the journal are open access , which means they are universally and freely accessible via the Internet. Recent studies have suggested that on average open access articles are more frequently accessed and twice as likely to be cited as those behind subscription barriers.

Breast Cancer Research's articles are extremely visible to the global community of clinicians and researchers in the field. Over 90,000 articles are downloaded from the journal website every month and 21,000 registered users receive regular email updates detailing the latest articles published.

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