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Two Oxford Journals feature in SLA’s top 100 journals list

7 April 2009

Nucleic Acids Research and the Journal of Experimental Botany have been identified by the Special Libraries Association (SLA) as two of the top 100 most influential journals in Biology and Medicine over the last 100 years.

The SLA’s BioMedical & Life Sciences Division undertook a poll to determine the top journals in these subject areas as part of the SLA’s Centennial celebrations.

Three panels each consisting of three experts were recruited from the SLA Biomedical & Life Sciences Division. Each panel composed a series of questions comparing journals in categories of biology or medicine. Tony Stankus from the University of Arkansas was the recruiter of the expert teams, the arbiter of disputes over disciplinary boundaries, and final editor of the poll.

‘We are delighted that Nucleic Acids Research and the Journal of Experimental Botany are considered by the SLA to be among the most influential titles in Biology and Medicine’, commented Mandy Hill, Editorial Director for Science and Medicine at Oxford University Press. ‘As a publisher, we are committed to doing all we can to ensure that these journals, and others we publish, continue to be high quality and high impact.’

Nucleic Acids Research , one of the first full open access journals, publishes the results of leading edge research into physical, chemical, biochemical and biological aspects of nucleic acids and proteins involved in nucleic acid metabolism and/or interactions.

The Journal of Experimental Botany publishes high-quality primary research papers in the plant sciences. These papers cover a range of disciplines from molecular and cellular physiology and biochemistry through whole plant physiology to community physiology.

For more information, please contact:

Kirsty Luff
Senior Communication Manager
Academic and Journals Divisions
Oxford University Press
+44 (0)1865 354206


Notes to Editors

SLA’s top 100 journals in Medicine and Biology:
http://units.sla.org/division/dbio/publications/resources/dbio100.html

Oxford Journals, a Division of OUP, publishes over 220 journals covering a broad range of subject areas, two-thirds of which are published in collaboration with learned societies and other international organizations. The collection contains some of the world's most prestigious titles, including Nucleic Acids Research, JNCI (Journal of the National Cancer Institute), Brain, Human Reproduction, English Historical Review, and the Review of Financial Studies. Read more about Oxford Journals

Oxford University Press(OUP), a department of the University of Oxford, is the world's largest and most international university press. Founded in 1478, it currently publishes more than 6,000 new books a year, has offices in around fifty countries, and employs some 5,000 people worldwide. It has become familiar to millions through a diverse publishing programme that includes scholarly works in all a