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Table 1 A comparison of 2003 journal impact factors

From: Delayed impact: ISI's citation tracking choices are keeping scientists in the dark

Journal

2003 impact factor

Genome Research

9.635

Bioinformatics

6.701

Nucleic Acids Research

6.575

Molecular Biology and Evolution

6.050

BMC Bioinformatics

4.896 (estimated)

Journal of Computational Biology

4.600

Genetics

4.276

Molecular Ecology

3.870

Evolution

3.833

Protein Science

3.787

Genomics

3.488

Journal of Molecular Evolution

3.114

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

2.826

Gene

2.754

Genome

1.861

  1. The journals listed are a selection of the journals that most frequently publish and/or cite bioinformatics-related articles.
  2. Note that the figure listed for BMC Bioinformatics is not an official impact factor, but an estimate, based on ISI's data, of what the impact factor would be, if it were calculated.