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About the Journal

The leading journal in its field, Bioinformatics publishes the highest quality scientific papers and review articles of interest to academic and industrial researchers. Its main focus is on new developments in genome bioinformatics and computational biology. Two distinct sections within the journal - Discovery Notes and Application Notes- focus on shorter papers; the former reporting biologically interesting discoveries using computational methods, the latter exploring the applications used for experiments.

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING SERVICES

Bioinformatics is covered by the following major indexing services:-

Medline (Index Medicus)
Science Citation Index
BIOSIS
Chemical Abstracts Service
Embase

IMPACT FACTORS

Bioinformatics ISI Impact Factor:

4.894 (2006)
6.019 (2005)
5.742 (2004)
6.701 (2003)
4.615 (2002)

CATEGORY: Biochemical Research Methods:

9/56 (2006)
6/53 (2005)
4/51 (2004)
3/51 (2003)
2/47 (2002)

CATEGORY: Biothechnical and Applied Microbiology:

14/139 (2006)
8/139 (2005)
7/133 (2004)
6/132 (2003)
10/131 (2002)

CATEGORY: Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications:

1/87 (2006)
1/83 (2005)
1/83 (2004)
1/83 (2003)
1/80 (2002)

CATEGORY: Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Applications:

1/76 (2005)
1/52 (2004)
1/43 (2003)
n/a (2002)

CATEGORY: Statistics and Probability:

1/83 (2006)
1/81 (2005)
1/77 (2004)
1/75 (2003)
n/a (2002)

ISI publish Impact Factor information in the Journal Citation Reports, part of the Science Citation Index.