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ProQuest Acquires U.K.’s Expert Information

ProQuest has acquired U.K.–based Expert Information, publishers of Index to Theses™ and Theses.com, premier sources of hundreds of thousands of citations and abstracts for British and Irish dissertations and master’s theses. The addition of Expert Information will continue expanding the global impact of ProQuest’s acclaimed dissertations publishing program, which includes ProQuest®Dissertations and Theses, the world’s most widely consulted resource for graduate research.

“ProQuest’s acquisition of Expert Information is a significant milestone toward the worldwide, integrated access to graduate works demanded by serious researchers,” said Rod Gauvin, ProQuest Senior Vice-President, Publishing. “The content in Index to Theses™ and Theses.com captures landmark works and emerging research from the U.K.’s most influential universities. Including this deep historical archive strengthens ProQuest’s dissertations publishing program and enables us to serve a much broader range of the world’s researchers.”

Expert Information abstracts and indexes more than a half million dissertations and theses, covering more than seventy years and continually growing by nearly 20,000 records per year. The content has been available via ProQuest through its product PQDT: U.K. & Ireland. Now, as part of the ProQuest family, the publishing program behind Expert Information’s products will expand to meet the global information needs of researchers.

Expert Information joins one of the world’s premier dissertation publishing programs. Approximately 99% of North American graduate degree-granting institutions contribute their students’ works to the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses database, enabling them to be easily discovered and accessed. Chosen by United States Library of Congress as the official archive of American dissertations, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses encompasses more than one quarter of a billion pages. Its 1.4 million digital dissertations and 2.9 million records create a unique and continually growing trove of research. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses is relied upon as a source of enlightening information as well as a pivotal tool for new scholars who aim to make their research available to the world’s intellectual communities. A team of scholars and technologists, who combine their talents to make it accessible, reliable and supported by continually advancing technology, manages the archive.

Royal Society receives Asturias Award

The Royal Society has been awarded the prestigious Prince of Asturias Award in Spain, given in recognition of a contribution to encouraging and promoting the scientific, cultural and humanistic values that form part of mankind’s universal heritage.

The Asturias Award has a shared history with the Royal Society, Professor Antonio Garcia-Bellido, a foreign fellow of the Royal Society, was award in 1984 and has published research in Royal Society Journals Philosophical Transactions B and Proceedings of the Royal Society Journal B.

The journals along with other Royal Society titles have achieved strong growth in their impact factors for 2010 including an 18% increase for Philosophical Transactions A. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences also achieved an impact factor of 5.064 in the recently released figures.

The Philosophical Transactions B now ranks 4th in Biology with an impact factor of 6.053, Philosophical Transactions A ranks 6th and Interface Focus ranks 4th in Multidisciplinary Sciences.

All impact factors can be viewed at http://bit.ly/2010impactf. You can also find a selection of the most read & cited articles from 2010 FREE to access at http://bit.ly/2010cited.

Developers Embrace Apple’s and Google’s Moves to Transform “The App” Experience

 Appcelerator®, the leading mobile cloud platform for rapidly developing native mobile, desktop, and tablet applications using Web technologies, and industry-leading analyst firm International Data Corporation (IDC), today announced results from a joint survey of 2,012 Appcelerator developers around the world. New analysis shows that Apple and Google are accelerating their lead in mobile by redefining mobile app engagement, loyalty, and cloud connectivity through their new Google+ and iCloud offerings. Developers also indicate that they see Apple and Google gains in the consumer application space translating into significant traction in the enterprise space over time. The full report can be viewed at: http://appcel.us/q3_2011_report.

“Google and Apple are pushing mobile competition beyond OS platforms into the cloud and into social integration,” notes Scott Ellison, IDC vice president, Mobile & Consumer Connected Platforms. “This means even broader battles with major players like Amazon and Facebook, creating new competitive complexities and opportunities going forward for everyone in the mobile ecosystem.”

New Apple and Google Announcements Put Mobile Cloud Opportunity on the Map

As mobile app and platform leadership continues to coalesce around Apple and Google, both players are leveraging their strengths into the cloud in different, but compelling new ways that are likely to generate long-term value and competitive differentiation for each of their respective ecosystems. Topline findings from this quarter’s report focus on how developers eye new opportunities for applications to become more social and more connected:

  • When asked what will impact the growth and adoption of mobile the most, Apple and Google come out on top. In order of priority:

o Google+: 25%

o Apple iCloud: 22%

o Near-Field Communication: 18%

o iOS 5 Twitter Integration: 14%

o Android Patent Issues: 13%

o Amazon Android Tablet Rumors: 6%

o HP TouchPad Launch: 2%

  • Two-thirds of respondents believe that Google can catch up to Facebook in social with Google+. When asked why, 68% of developers say that leveraging Google’s assets (eg: Search, YouTube, Maps, etc) trumps Facebook’s social graph lead. Forty-nine percent say that Google shows more innovation than Facebook with new Google+ features like circles, sparks, hangouts, etc.
  • While Google+ may be the future, today 83% of developers using social in their apps say they use or are planning to use Facebook this year. Twitter is second at 73%, followed closely by Google+ (when API is released) at 72%, LinkedIn at 30%, and Foursquare at 23%.
  • When asked what social capabilities are most important in their apps, developers said that features that encourage repeat usage and offer fresh content are more important than location check-ins and photo sharing. In order of priority, developers use social for: notifications (52%), status updates (49%), login/identity (44%), messaging (38%), news (35%), location sharing (32%), photo sharing (31%), and friend requests (26%).
  • Continuing on the real-time update theme, when it comes to iOS 5 features, developers are most interested in: improved notifications (58%), iCloud (51%), integrated Twitter support (40%), reminders (36%), and iMessage (32%).
  • iCloud may significantly disrupt the mobile cloud computing space, as developers envision a tight race between Amazon and Apple. Developers who are using or planning to use cloud services over the next year see Amazon (51%), iCloud (50%), Microsoft Windows Azure (20%), VMWare (20%), and RedHat OpenShift (17%) as the top five players.
  • Apple and Google’s strengths in the mobile consumer space are clearly making inroads in developer perceptions of the enterprise arena. When asked which platform is best positioned to win in the enterprise, respondents were evenly divided between iOS and Android at 44% each. Only 7% believe Windows Phone has a shot, 4% for BlackBerry, and 2% for webOS. Appcelerator and IDC note that enterprises are taking a more cautious approach with Android at scale due to security concerns, in which case they are looking to Apple when they go beyond BlackBerry and Windows mobile deployments. In the near to medium-term, despite being equivalent from a developer perception standpoint, Apple is leading with CIOs today when it comes to mobile deployments beyond Microsoft and RIM.
  • While neck and neck in the enterprise, perceptions on why Apple or Google might win in the enterprise are dramatically different. We posed two reasons why each platform might win and then asked developers to rank which statements were most accurate across all platforms. Topping the list, 30% of developers believe Android’s market share lead will be the key driver for success in the enterprise ,followed by 24% of respondents saying that Apple’s consumerization of the user experience will carry iOS into mainstream enterprise adoption.
  • With relatively few new product announcements this past quarter, platform priorities haven’t changed significantly. iPhone remains tops as 91% say they are “very interested” in developing for the device. iPad is number two at 88%, while Android pulled up a couple points with Android phone interest climbing to 87% from 85% last quarter and Android Tablets rose back to Q1 levels to 74%. We added HTML5 mobile web as a new option to rank this quarter, which comes in fifth at 66%. The second tier remains the same: Windows Phone (30%), BlackBerry phones (28%), BlackBerry Playbook (20%), HP TouchPad (18%), HP Palm Pre (12%), Symbian (7%), and MeeGo (5%) rounding out the list. The new addition of mobile web in the middle of the pack suggests developers are seeing the increasing requirement for both a mobile app and mobile website, though the former continues to be the number one priority.

Key Trend: Mobile Leaders Are Extending Their Lead by Redefining the Application Experience

As OSes and consumer expectations mature, “the app” is undergoing a transformation. Applications are becoming more engaging with real-time notifications, social, local context, and always-on cloud connectivity becoming the norm. That “upstarts” iCloud and Google+ can challenge entrenched players Amazon and Facebook shows how quickly these new capabilities will shake up what’s possible in mobile.

As utility, loyalty, and engagement drive applications to become “stickier” in our mobile virtual wallets, so too are transaction models adapting to move away from the app store and into the application. We revisited the business model question from January to see how priorities are evolving and continue to see acceleration in strategies that monetize ongoing usage. In January, 59% of developers said that app store sales are the number one preferred business model. Now, that figure has dropped to 50% and developers see this trend continuing into 2012. At the same time, in-app purchasing has increased from 42% saying in January they plan to use this model to 43% today and 50% by next year, rivaling app store sales. Similarly, mobile commerce applications are seen as surpassing free “brand” affinity apps late this year along with an increase in near-field communication (NFC) usage next year.

Ultimately, these changes are an evolution of the mobile engagement lifecycle. From customer acquisition/awareness to engagement, to monetization to loyalty, mobile leaders are focusing on leveraging their ubiquitous adoption levels into new areas that, in the end, significantly enlarge the overall value that’s possible on each of their platforms in the post-PC era.

A complete breakdown of these trends and a more detailed analysis is available online: http://appcel.us/q3_2011_report.

Elsevier announces Gray’s Anatomy for Students app for the iPad

Elsevier announced today its new Gray’s Anatomy for Students App, for iPad, is now available on the App Store. The app includes content from Gray’s Anatomy for Students, Second Edition.

The Gray’s Anatomy for Students App provides access to a clinically-oriented, student-friendly textbook for human anatomy. Beginning with a general chapter on the body, students are introduced to the anatomical terminology, positioning, medical imaging and overview of body systems. The content then progresses through the body in a logical manner, building on the body’s complexity as the reader becomes familiar with the subject matter.

“Today, more and more students and clinicians are turning to the iPad for content, so we wanted to provide a version of one of the best-selling textbooks of anatomy where students can access all the leading content without having to carry the actual book,” said Dr. Richard Blake, co-author of Gray’s Anatomy for Students, Second Edition. “Through a digital, simple version, this app will give students access to anatomical terminology anytime and anywhere.”

The Gray’s Anatomy for Students App has several features, including:

  • Complete text and full HD illustrations;
  • Scrollable thumbnails of all illustrations;
  • Convenient searchable index;
  • Pinch and zoom figures;
  • Mark and label function, including the ability to save images to “My Photos” or adding notes to text and/or figures;
  • Index to clinical content, surface anatomy, tables and notes.

In its second edition, Gray’s Anatomy for Students is highly recommended by both staff and students. A team of authors with a wealth of diverse teaching and clinical experience has updated and revised the new edition to efficiently cover content that is learned in contemporary anatomy classes. An improved format, updated clinical material, and remarkable artwork by renowned illustrators Richard Tibbitts and Paul Richardson make anatomy easier to master. Unique coverage of surface anatomy, correlative diagnostic images, and clinical case studies demonstrate practical applications of anatomical concepts, and an international advisory board, comprised of more than 100 instructors, ensures that the material is accurate, up to date, and easy to use.

The Gray’s Anatomy for Students App is available for $79.99 from the App Store on iPad or at External link http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/grays-anatomy-for-students/id429405125?mt=8

Programme for Berlin 9 Open Access meeting announced

The program for the international Berlin 9 Open Access meeting has been announced today by the organizing coalition. Focusing on the impact of Open Access in research and scholarship, the event will explore how open, online access has the potential to transform the process of discovery and the translation of knowledge into benefits to society, as well as to enhance public engagement and create new opportunities for scholarship and business.

This ninth installment in the Berlin Open Access conference series, which convenes leaders in the science, humanities, research, funding, and policy communities around The Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities, will take place at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Chevy Chase, MD, on November 9 & 10, 2011, with pre-conference meetings planned for November 8th, in Washington, DC.

The program committee for the meeting has been examining the role that Open Access can play in accelerating the conduct and communication of scholarship, and the opportunities this presents to the funders, creators, and end users of this information. They have identified five key topics to explore:

  • Transforming Research through Open Online Access to Discovery Inputs and Outputs
  • Creation of Innovative New Opportunities for Scholarship and Business
  • The Impact of Open Access and Open Repositories on Research in the Humanities
  • Open Education: Linking Learning and Research through Open Access
  • Public Interaction: the Range and Power of Open Access for Citizen Science, Patients, and Large-scale Collaboration

Speakers for each topic area are being invited and will be announced this fall.

The committee has also invited keynote remarks from top U.S. and international policymakers, including a high-level exploration on redefining measures of impact.

For more information about the program and pre-conferences as they develop, as well as the program committee and organizing coalition, visit the conference Web site at http://www.berlin9.org.

Meeting Sponsorships are now being welcomed. For information, visit http://www.berlin9.org/sponsors.

Berlin 9 is being organized by representatives from the science, humanities, research, funding and policy communities, including the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Marine Biological Laboratory, the Max Planck Society, Association of Research Libraries, and SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition).

Registration will open in September.

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For more information, contact:

— Jennifer McLennan, SPARC, (202) 296-2296 ext. 121, jennifer [at] arl [dot] org
— Christoph Bruch, Max Planck Society, +49 (30) 84 13 37 27, bruch [at] mpdl [dot] mpg [dot] de
— Avice Meehan, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, (301) 215-8646, meehana [at] hhmi [dot] org
— Prudence S. Adler, Association of Research Libraries, (202) 296-2296, prue [at] arl [dot] org
— Andrea Early, Marine Biological Laboratory, (508) 289-7652, aearly [at] mbl [dot] edu

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The Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities, issued in 2003 by international research, scientific, and cultural institutions, promotes the Internet as a medium for disseminating global knowledge. It has been signed by the leaders of over 300 research institutions, libraries, archives, museums, funding agencies, and governments from around the world. Signatories include the Max Planck Society (co-initiator and custodian of the declaration), CERN, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Academia Europaea, Harvard University, and the International Federation of Library Associations.

The Berlin Open Access Conference Series supports the continued adoption and realization of the principles of the declaration and has been hosted in Germany, Switzerland, England, Italy, France, and – most recently – China. Berlin 9 will mark the first such meeting to take place in North America. The program will feature concrete steps taken by a variety of stakeholders to support Open Access and invite participants to consider added actions that might be taken – including encouraging signatures to the Berlin Declaration.

For more information about the conference and the Berlin Declaration, visit www.berlin9.org.

JISC support for MPs peer review report

MPs recently recommended improvements to the way scientific papers are checked before they are published, calling for the peer review process to be more transparent – see the BBC article.

The recommendations came out of a House of Commons Science and Technology Committee report which also urged that researchers make their scientific data publicly available, and that reviewers have formal training.

Executive secretary at JISC, Dr Malcolm Read, said, “At JISC we strongly support the recommendations of the House of Commons Committee report. Though most researchers agree with the principles of peer review, many feel there is room to improve how it is implemented. Recently there have been suggestions about alternatives, like open peer review and JISC has funded universities to look into open access academic journals which are compiled from other openly available material.”

JISC is already acting on a number of the recommendations – including funding the Dryad project mentioned in the report. Dryad-UK provides a repository for the data underpinning research articles, encouraging greater research openness. The BMJ Open journal and titles from BioMedCentral and PLoS have become partners,integrating their submission process with Dryad and strongly encouraging authors to deposit research data.

Neil Jacobs, programme director at JISC, said, “We are also engaged in productive collaboration with innovative publishers such as PLoS, as well as industry bodies, for example on standardising the way usage statistics for articles are reported.”

The government report describes access to data as ‘fundamental’ for researchers to reproduce, verify and build on each others’ results.

This spirit of openness is something JISC supports, through its work with the UK Research Councils.

However, there are challenges, as JISC’s programme manager for data management Simon Hodson explains, “These objectives will be difficult to realise unless research practice and supporting systems and infrastructures are developed to make good practice easier. Similarly, researchers will feel little motivation to make data available in a timely way unless conventions of recognition and reward evolve to encompass the effort required to ensure data quality and reusability. The JISC Managing Research Data Programme is helping universities support researchers in responding to these challenges.”

Elsevier introduces new interactive feature on SciVerse ScienceDirect to enrich content of articles

Elsevier introduces the Genome Viewer, a new interactive feature on SciVerse ScienceDirect for applicable life sciences journals. The Genome Viewer is a SciVerse application that displays detailed gene or genomic sequence information on the genes mentioned in an article.

The Genome Viewer utilizes a genome browser developed by External link  NCBI (the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the National Institutes of Health). Elsevier collaborated with the NCBI as it was developing the browser, and is the first publisher to incorporate the technology into an application for viewing detailed information about the gene sequences that are mentioned in articles.

When an author of an article tags a gene sequence, Elsevier matches this gene with information in NCBI’s databases and pulls this information into the article. This allows readers of the article to get specific information about each strand by hovering over it, and also offers functionality such as flipping the strands, zooming to a sequence, or going to a specific position to define a track of interest within the sequence.

The Genome Viewer also allows the user to download the complete list of genes and/or genomes referred in the article along with their respective GenBank accession numbers. This functionality was added based on recommendations of domain experts interviewed.

Andre van Wijnen, editor of Gene and Professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center said, “Genome Viewer allows for quick examination of sequences and primer design for genes of interest. It permits easy alternation between long range genomic organization and zooming to the highest magnification to obtain base pair information. The hotlink with the NCBI database is particularly useful, as it further expands functionality and permits creation of multiple sliding windows with different genomic ranges. The introduction of the Genome Viewer to the online article adds a new and versatile dimension to our reading experience.”

“We are delighted to offer the Genome Viewer in our journals, as part of our ongoing efforts to enrich the content of articles, put them in context of other published research and improve the presentation,” said IJsbrand Jan Aalbersberg, Vice President Content Innovation at Elsevier. “It’s an enhancement for the readers as they don’t have to search for the gene information outside of the article, and also for authors as it enriches their article.”

The Genome Viewer is one of the results of the External link  Article of the Future project, which is designed to improve the readers’ experience in all areas of presentation, and offering value-added content and interoperability with external databases. The Genome Viewer will be available for all other Elsevier applicable life sciences journals in the future.

Please visit these links to explore this new feature:

Nick Johnson appointed new Editor-in-Chief

Maney Publishing is very pleased to announce that Mr Nick Johnson, Chief Executive at the Social Care Association (SCA), has been appointed as the new Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Care Services Management (JCSM).

Maney is delighted to welcome Nick Johnson who has a history of collaboration with JCSM. He has previously served as a guest editor, and held a position on the editorial board. He was appointed Assistant Chief Executive of the SCA after a career in local government in the personal social services; he was promoted in 2005 to Chief Executive. Nick Johnson has had considerable involvement in the SCA for many years in an honorary capacity and has represented the Association as a Governor of the National Institute for Social Work. He has also undertaken work on behalf of the Residential Forum and the All Party Parliamentary Group on the Personal Social Services. He writes and speaks widely on the topic of social care with a particular focus on people who work in care services and best practice issues.

Nick Johnson is very pleased to be editing the journal: “JCSM provides a place to share good ideas, best practice and evidenced research that supports care services. For readers, it provides a useful basis for reflection, a much underused part of professional practice, and stimulus for teams of social care and health practitioners to review their own position and to work on areas of improvement using the material contained in the journal. I look forward to the opportunity, and I appeal to those working in social care to consider writing up their interesting, challenging or excellent practice narratives for the record and for sharing with those who share your space.”

Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals launch new journal – QScience Connect

The new journal content will be “open access” and free

Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals (BQFJ) today announced the launch of QScience Connect on its digital publishing platform QScience.com. QScience Connect is a new kind of peer-reviewed academic and scientific journal that aims to provide a home for all research considered to be valid, ethical and correct. All content in the journal will be ‘open access,’ meaning it is free-to-read on the web while authors retain copyright on their works.

QScience Connect will publish original research papers of interest to specialists in all given fields. It will not set a threshold of perceived importance for the papers that it publishes; rather, it will publish all papers that are judged to be technically valid and original. All research papers will benefit from rapid peer review and publication.
“QScience Connect will accept submissions from ALL fields and will publish those manuscripts which meet the simple criteria of being conducted in the appropriate manner, and where the conclusions concur with the results (if appropriate). We place less emphasis on perceived interest, instead preferring that our readers determine which articles are interesting be accessing and citing them,” said Arend Kuster, Managing Director, at Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals. “QScience Connect leverages the tools, technology and experience of BQFJ, bringing this knowledge and insight to a broad-based, open access publication. Through increased competition and innovation, we hope to give authors great service, functionality and visibility for their research.”

“We believe this is an ideal model for online publishing, as all papers that describe work carried out correctly will be afforded a home in a peer-reviewed journal. It is also intended to capture interdisciplinary work which may fall between the aims and scopes of two journals,” says Christopher Leonard, Editorial Director of Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals. “QScience Connect adds to our growing portfolio of open access journals as we continue to see an increasing commitment by research funders to cover the costs of open access publishing, and interest from authors in this publishing route is growing by the day.”

QScience Connect is introducing a new feature, to emphasize that each article has been peer-reviewed and checked for validity and rigor, we have asked that the peer reviewers give up their anonymity for accepted manuscripts, allowing us to create a ‘Certificate of Acceptance’ for each article, showing the names of the peer reviewers and editor who reviewed the manuscript.

Authors are positively encouraged to make the most of the online environment and welcome submissions which may primarily consist of video or audio. Supplementary files can accompany text files too, and we look forward to authors using this facility to publish datasets which are reported in the main manuscript.

QScience.com’s advanced technology makes research findings readily accessible and searchable using multimedia functionalities to support text, data, audio and video formats. It is also the first scholarly research platform to make journal abstracts available in both English and Arabic and all content will be available via our mobile platform QScience Mobile.

QScience.com already hosts seven scholarly journals covering diverse subject areas such as cardiology, information & library studies, sustainable energy, education, Middle Eastern healthcare, design and Islamic studies. Many other journals are scheduled to be added in 2011.

QScience Connect is accepting submissions from today, and will publish its first articles in September 2011.

 

BioMed Central to launch three new journals at ISMB/ECCB event

Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced its participation at the upcoming 19th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology and 10th European Conference on Computational Biology (ISMB/ECCB 2011) in Vienna. The company will be exhibiting at booth #11.

BioMed is sponsoring the ISCB Student Council Symposium for the sixth year. It will launch three new journals relevant to the computational biology and open science communities. These include Open Research Computation, edited by Dr. Cameron Neylon; GigaScience edited by Dr. Laurie Goodman; and Open Network Biology edited by Dr. Eric Schadt.

The biannual ISMB/ECCB conference, scheduled for July 17–19, 2011, claims to be the largest conference on computational biology. It seeks to bring together the most influential figures in the field. The bioinformatics and systems biology communities are continuing to support open access publishing and as a result BioMed Central’s journal portfolio is seen to be growing.

Impact Factors Rise for Key AIP Journals

The American Institute of Physics (AIP) (www.aip.org) is pleased to report significant increases in the impact factors of many of its key titles, as reported in the 2010 Journal Citation Reports®(JCR) (Thomson Reuters 2011). Stand-out performances include a 34.6% jump by Biomicrofluidics,a more than 15% increase by Chaos, and impressive gains for Applied Physics Letters, Physics of Fluids,Review of Scientific Instruments, Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data, and Journal of Laser Applications.

The outstanding performance of AIP journals in 2010 means they maintain their place among the most highly cited journals in their categories. Led by Applied Physics Letters (APL) and Journal of Applied Physics(JAP), AIP ranked first overall in applied physics citations. Its total of four titles garnered more than a third of all cited references among the 116 journals in the category, while representing just 4% of the titles indexed.

“I am deeply gratified to see the great strides taken by many of our core journals in 2010, as clearly evidenced by the increases in their impact factors,” said AIP Vice President, Publishing, John Haynes. “The JCR data highlight the great value and service AIP journals provide to the community through the large volume of articles we publish. In applied physics alone, APL and JAP published more than 8,300 articles in 2010—more than the next five journals combined.”

AIP is also proud to announce the JCR data for a number of its other highly respected publications:

  • Applied Physics Letters saw an increase in its impact factor of 7.5%. Of the 365 physics journals in the JCR, APL was the third most highly cited, with a total of nearly 200,000 citations.
  • Biomicrofluidics saw a 34.6% jump in impact factor to 3.896, placing it solidly at number two in the Physics, Fluids & Plasmas category. This young journal has risen steadily through the ranks since it was first included in the 2008 JCR.
  • Chaos experienced a rise of 15.9% in its impact factor, going from 1.795 to 2.081.
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics (JCP) remains the most highly cited of the 32 journals in the Atomic, Molecular, and Chemical Physics category, with more than twice the number of citations of the next two journals combined. Of all 365 physics journals in the JCR, JCP was the fourth most highly cited, with a total of more than 165,000 citations.
  • Journal of Laser Applications increased its impact factor by 6.4%.
  • Journal of Mathematical Physics enjoyed an 18.3% increase in its immediacy index and, as it has for many years, posted a half-life of >10 years. It remains among the top five cited journals in Mathematical Physics.
  • Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data saw a more than 50% increase in its impact factor.
  • Physics of Fluids is the third most highly cited journal in both the Physics, Fluids & Plasmas and Mechanics categories. The journal reported a 5.1% jump in its impact factor.
  • Physics of Plasmas was again the most highly cited journal dedicated entirely to plasma physics. It also retains a top ten spot in the Physics, Fluids & Plasmas category when ranked by both impact factor and total citations.
  • Physics Today, AIP’s flagship magazine, saw a rise in its immediacy index of more than 125% illustrating its relevance and value by how quickly articles are cited.
  • Review of Scientific Instruments is the second most highly cited of the 61 journals in Instruments & Instrumentation.

“It is clear that an extraordinary number of scientists are citing our articles and using the work reported in AIP journals as a foundation for their own research,” said AIP Publisher, Mark Cassar. “Given that many of the top researchers in these fields are our journals’ editors, editorial board members, authors and referees, it’s not surprising that our citation rankings continue to climb. I thank these talented scientists for their support.”

 

Knovel Expands Executive Team

Knovel, the leading provider of a Web-based application integrating technical information with analytical and search tools, today announced the addition of two senior executives to its management team – Lou Desiderio as Chief Financial Officer and Steve Dunn as Senior Vice President of Global Sales at Knovel.  Collectively adding more than 45 years of experience to the management team, both executives will provide strategic guidance as the company accelerates growth internationally and continues to evolve its product to ensure engineers find answers to technical questions fast.

“Knovel enters its second decade of business with sustained year-over-year growth, high annual subscription renewal rates and global demand for our award-winning product,” said Chris Forbes, CEO and president, Knovel.  “Early this year, we announced plans to increase staff by more than 25 percent, and we are well on our way.  In May we added an EU-based sales and marketing team.  Now, we’ve expanded our management team to provide leadership and structure as we continue the path of growth and profitability. Steve and Lou offer a wealth of experience and will be tremendous assets to Knovel.”

Joining as Knovel’s Chief Financial Officer, Lou Desiderio brings 25 years of financial and operations expertise. Prior to joining Knovel, Desiderio held senior finance roles at several public and private companies in the technology and professional services industries.  Desiderio has extensive experience in strategic planning and business development, raising capital, and advising on mergers and acquisitions. As Senior Vice President of Global Sales, Steve Dunn will use his 20-plus years of experience building global sales organizations in both private and public software companies to drive Knovel’s worldwide sales and meet targets for revenue growth and customer retention. Prior to joining Knovel, Dunn was Dyadem Corporation’s Vice President of International Sales and Global Alliances, where revenue doubled in the past two years leading to a 2011 acquisition. Previously, Dunn was a company officer at MatrixOne and Workgroup Technology. Dunn was a key contributor to each company’s rapid revenue growth enabling an IPO for both.

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