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Briefings in Bioinformatics Impact Factor

Briefings in Bioinformatics receives 24.370 as its first impact factor!

We are delighted to announce that Briefings in Bioinformatics has just received its first impact factor - of 24.370! This is a fantastic achievement for a journal, and surely a reflection of the tremendous impact of bioinformatics on biology. Over 800 citations in 2006 were received by a very highly cited article published in 2004: Kumar S, Tamura K & Nei M's "MEGA3: Integrated Software for Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis and Sequence Alignment."

While we are delighted that the journal attracted such a high impact article, we think it is important to also show just how strong the impact factor would have been without the article. If this article were omitted from the 2006 impact factor calculation, Briefings in Bioinformatics would have an impact of ~4 - which is a very strong result for the journal's first impact factor. We would like to thank our authors for their support in helping make the journal such a success.

Click here to read the highly cited MEGA3 article for FREE!

Click here to read an editorial published in the journal further explaining its first impact factor.