AGU Journals highly ranked in latest Journal Citation Reports

[Karine Blaufuss <KBlaufuss@agu.org>]

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AGU Journals highly ranked in latest Journal Citation Reports

Washington DC, 24 June 2009 - The 2008 Science Edition of Journal 
Citation Reports by Thomson Reuters places journals published by 
the American Geophysical Union (AGU) among the best in Earth and 
space sciences.

The top 10 journals ranked by Impact Factor under the 
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary category include two AGU 
publications: /Global Biogeochemical Cycles/ (4.090 Impact 
Factor) and /Paleoceanography/ (3.626 Impact Factor). Also in the 
same category, four AGU journals figure in the newly introduced 
top 10 Eigenfactor score ranking: /Journal of Geophysical 
Research/ (#1), /Geophysical Research Letters/ (#2), /Global 
Biogeochemical Cycles/ (#6), and /Paleoceanography/ (#9).

AGU journals performed well in several other categories as well: 
/Global Biogeochemical Cycles/ ranks second in Meteorology and 
Atmospheric Sciences and fifth in Environmental Sciences; 
/Paleoceanography/ is first in Paleontology and third in 
Oceanography; /Water Resource Research/ places second in Water 
Resources and in Limnology.

Overall, all AGU journals saw their Impact Factor grow from 2007, 
some by as much as 27% (/Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems/). 
Finally, for the 11th consecutive year, /Reviews of Geophysics/ 
is the most cited journal in Geochemistry and Geophysics, with an 
impressive Impact Factor of 7.114.

Impact Factors determine how often work published in 
peer-reviewed journals is cited by other researchers. 
/Eigenfactor/ scores also use citations data to measure the 
importance of a journal to the scientific community. Eigenfactor 
scores exclude self-citation, include 5 years of citations data, 
and weight cited references. Both scores are viewed as an 
important measurement of the quality of the material published in 
a peer-reviewed journal and by extension of the prominence of the 
journal itself.

The American Geophysical Union is a worldwide scientific 
community that advances, through unselfish cooperation in 
research, an understanding of Earth and space that is used for 
the benefit of humanity. AGU makes the results of the scientific 
study of the Earth and its environment in space available to the 
public and advances the Earth and space sciences by publishing 
journals covering fundamental research in various disciplines, 
numerous books, /Eos/, a weekly newspaper, and occasional other 
scientific publications.

For more information please contact:

Karine S. Blaufuss
Group Manager, Marketing and Membership
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
kblaufuss@agu.org <mailto:kblaufuss@agu.org>
www.agu.org/journals