The 2007 impact factors are now available from Thomson’s Journal Citation Reports database and the rankings for the top twenty Oncology Journals are:

1. CA: A CANCER JOURNAL FOR CLINICIANS: 69.026
2. NATURE REVIEWS CANCER: 29.190
3. CANCER CELL: 23.858
4. JOURNAL OF THE NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE: 15.678
5. JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY: 15.484
6. LANCET ONCOLOGY: 12.247
7. NATURE CLINICIAL PRACTICE ONCOLOGY: 8.217
8. CANCER RESEARCH: 7.672
9. STEM CELLS: 7.531
10. ADVANCES IN CANCER RESEARCH 7.524
11. SEMINARS IN CANCER BIOLOGY: 7.510
12. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-REVIEWS ON CANCER: 7.264
13. LEUKEMIA: 6.924
14. ONCOGENE: 6.440
15. CLINICAL CANCER RESEARCH: 6.250
16. NEURO-ONCOLOGY 5.806
17. NEOPLASIA 5.674
18. JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY 5.423
19. CARCINOGENESIS: 5.406
20. CURRENT CANCER DRUG TARGETS: 5.385

These journal impact factors are the average number of times articles from the journal published in 2005-2006 have been cited in 2007.

The impact factor is calculated by dividing the number of citations in 2007 by the total number of articles published in the two previous years. Cancer Cell has an impact factor of 23.858, which means that, on average, the articles published in 2005 and 2006 have been cited 23.858 times in 2007. Citing articles may be from the same journal; most citing articles are from different journals.

New to the top twenty list of oncology journals this year are Neuro-Oncology, Neoplasia, and the Journal of Pathology. These journals replace Oncologist (dropped to 22 with an impact factor of 4.876), Cancer and Metastasis Reviews (dropped to 38 with an impact factor of 4.214), and Seminars in Radiation Oncology (dropped to 43 with an impact factor of 3.788).

The Research Medical Library carries current online subscriptions to all of these journals. They are available from the Online Journals page at http://www3.mdanderson.org/library/online-journals/jrnls.html.

To search for the complete list of 132 oncology journals ranked by Journal Citation Reports, visit the Research Medical Library’s databases page at: http://www3.mdanderson.org/library/databases/databases.html.
For questions about impact factors, please contact Clara Fowler at cfowler@mdanderson.org or 713-745-1538.

The Research Medical Library Summer Brown Bag sessions continue this summer with the following topics:

• July 3 from 12:00-1:00 - Web 2.0 Featuring Chat & Wikis: Web 2.0 aims to enhance creativity and collaboration through the development of web-based communities. This session will highlight two Web 2.0 technologies, chat and wikis, and show ways that the Research Medical Library is using these to enhance services.
  
  
• July 30 from 12:00-1:00 - PubMed Publication Types: Learn how to limit your PubMed results by publication type and find only what you need such as Phase 2 clinical trials, review articles, or randomized controlled trials.

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