Great journals, good ones, and all the rest

[J. Peterman]

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For those of you who've published, I'm curious what you think about the various tiers of journals in the biomedical sciences. Right now, I'm a first-year MD/PhD'er trying to choose rotation labs. One factor (of many) in my decision making will be the publication record of the PI - primarily quality, but also volume. Everyone says that Science and Nature are tops, but what about EMBO, Cell, JBC, Journal of Immunology, Blood, Oncogene or any others that you think are standard for MD/PhDs to vie for when publishing? Could you break it down into tiers for me? ...or if you have general comments about journals, that would be helpful as well.

-Thanks

 

[Gfunk6]

ISI Web of Science publishes the impact factor of journals -- which is primarily based on how many times articles in a journal are quoted. It also breaks it down by discipline.

 

[BDavis]

Could you break it down into tiers for me? ...or if you have general comments about journals, that would be helpful as well.

-Thanks

Here is an link with a relative scale of impact factors:
http://www.bioreference.net/impact/if2003.htm

Usually these websites get taken down if the ISI finds out about it because they copyright the impact factors.