According to the current JCR Edition (2008), Genome
Research has an
Impact Factor of 10.176 and has been rising in ranking among all primary research
publications to 2nd in Biotechnology, 3rd in Genetics and is one of the Top Ten primary
research journals in Molecular Biology. We rank even higher in all categories according to
immediacy index, which is the average number of times an article is cited in the year it is published,
and with newer metrics based on prestige of citing journals.
Along with high citation rates in scientific publications, world press and media frequently
feature the work of GR authors. Click here for recent press highlights�.
Faster Turnaround
We understand that publishing research in a timely manner is of the utmost importance to
authors and others in the field so we continually strive to reduce the time it takes to make decisions.
Currently, and on average, we make a first decision on manuscripts within 23 days from submission.
Accepted papers are continuously published online ahead of print on the
GR-in-Advance page, as soon as they are
copyedited and journal formatted.
Since the online first release date serves as the official date of publication, this reduces the time from
acceptance to publication by approximately six to eight weeks.
GR-in-Advance papers now also include Accepted Preprints,
which are PDF versions of manuscripts that have been peer reviewed and accepted for publication but are not yet copyedited or typeset.
These Accepted Preprints are posted online within hours of acceptance allowing for the fastest publication possible.
Community-Focused
We know that open access to research is important to authors, their institutions and their funding sources so all papers
are freely available online six months after publication. In addition, Genome Research offers an Open Access option in
which authors may pay a surcharge to make their paper freely available online
immediately upon publication.
Genome Research is renowned among journals for setting standards in Quality, Accessibility,
Fair Use and Acknowledgment of Data Resources.
Researchers who submit papers to the journal must make their data freely accessible to the broader community
in public databases where they exist, and at the Genome Research Web site, and at the authors� Web site, when they do not.
For use of publicly held data, Genome Research follows the guidelines for fair use of community resource data as agreed upon
at the Fort Lauderdale Meeting, 2003. It is required that accession numbers for newly created data are presented in text
and appropriate attribution of data sources is given.
