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Ginny Foley
781-388-8334
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For Immediate Release

Wiley-Blackwell's Portfolio Now Includes over 900 Journals with
Impact Factors

Hoboken, N.J., June 24, 2008 - Global publisher Wiley-Blackwell,
which is part of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., today announced that it
has over 900 journals included in the Thomson ISI 2007 Journal
Citation Reports. Of these, many showed dramatic increases in
Impact Factors across the majority of subject areas. In addition,
Wiley-Blackwell titles are ranked number one in 31 categories
including Mass Spectrometry Reviews (Spectroscopy), Addiction
(Substance Abuse), Arthritis & Rheumatism (Arthritis Care &
Research), Child Development (Psychology, Education), and Global
Ecology and Biogeography (Geography, Physical).

"The results of this report reflect not only our commitment to
working with our editors, societies and authors to help make
important contributions to advances in knowledge in the fields in
which we publish, but also our dedication to enabling the widest
access to current issues," said Eric A. Swanson, Senior Vice
President, Wiley-Blackwell.

Impact factors are a metric that reflect the frequency that
peer-reviewed journals are cited by researchers, making them one
tool for evaluating a journal's quality.

Highlights in the medical sciences include Obesity Reviews
(Endocrinology & Metabolism) with its first Impact Factor of
7.821 and Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (Medicine,
General & Internal) with 4.654. The Journal of Sexual Medicine
continues to increase its place in the field at 6.199, and
ranking second in the urology and nephrology category.

In the field of chemistry, Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis
confirmed its number one position in the applied chemistry
category for the fourth straight year; Fuel Cells received its
first Impact Factor of 3.273; and for the last two years,
Angewandte Chemie, a journal of the German Chemical Society, has
received an Impact Factor above 10.

Clinical Implant Dentistry and Related Research received its
first Impact Factor; the International Endodontic Journal added
almost a point increase to its Impact Factor; and Periodontology
2000 increased its ranking from fourth to number one in its
field. Wiley-Blackwell now has the top six dentistry journals in
the top 10 in the dentistry, oral surgery and medicine category.

In the social sciences and humanities, a number of journals
increased their Impact Factors substantially including the
British Journal of Sociology with an increase of 145% and
Sustainable Development which increased its Impact Factor by
173%.

In the area of life sciences, Biological Reviews increased its
Impact Factor from 5.565 to 8.833; FEMS Microbiology Reviews
increased its Impact Factor to 9.25; and for the fourth
consecutive year Ecology Letters increased its Impact Factor -- now
8.204.

About Wiley-Blackwell

Wiley-Blackwell was formed in February 2007 as a result of the
acquisition of Blackwell Publishing Ltd. by John Wiley & Sons,
Inc., and its merger with Wiley's Scientific, Technical, and
Medical business. Together, the companies have created a global
publishing business with deep strength in every major academic
and professional field. Wiley-Blackwell publishes approximately
1,400 scholarly peer-reviewed journals and an extensive
collection of books with global appeal. For more information on
Wiley-Blackwell, please visit www.blackwellpublishing.com or
http://interscience.wiley.com.

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