The Quality of Open Access Journals
Thomson ISI’s Journal Citation Reports (JCR) istool that allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 7,000 scholarly and technical journals from more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries. It generally takes at least two years from when a journal is first accepted for citation tracking by ISI’s Journal Citation Reports for the impact factor to be calculated for the first time.
Below are listed a few health science open access journals with promising impact factors in the JCR. Some are recently established journals and others are established journals which have moved to the open access model.
- Arthritis Research & Therapy — 5.036 (ranked 2 nd of 21 journals); start year: 1999.
- British Medical Journal (BMJ) – 7.2 (ranked 6 th of 102 journals)
- CA-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians – 33.056 (ranked 2 nd of 120 journals)
- Critical Care – 1.911 (6 th of 16 journals); start year: 1997.
- Molecular Vision – 2.777 (6 th of 41 journals); start year 1995
- Respiratory Research – 5.537 (2 nd of 31 journals); start year: 2000, and 1 st year it received a JCR impact factor.
Thompson’s ISI JCR (for University of Iowa affiliates only): http://purl.lib.uiowa.edu/jcr
