Abstract
BMC Biology launched in November 2003, under the stewardship of Peter Newmark and an international Editorial Board as the flagship open access biology journal in the BMC series, publishing research of general interest and special importance across the biological sciences. The aim was to bridge a gap between the premier journal, Journal of Biology, a home for exceptional research, and the established specialist titles in the BMC series such as BMC Bioinformatics, by providing a more selective home for articles of broader interest. As BMC Biology's fifth birthday is upon us, it has secured its position within the BMC-series stable with an impressive debut impact factor of, appropriately, five!
Highlights
BMC Biology launched in November 2003, under the stewardship of Peter Newmark and an international Editorial Board [1] as the flagship open access biology journal in the BMC series, publishing research of general interest and special importance across the biological sciences
As BMC Biology's fifth birthday is upon us, it has secured its position within the BMCseries stable with an impressive debut impact factor of, appropriately, five!
We are absolutely delighted with our impact factor of five, but how was this achieved? One clear contributor to the impact factor is from the field of plant genomics, a paper by Christopher Town and colleagues (Complete reannotation of the Arabidopsis genome: methods, tools, protocols and the final release) [4] that has been cited over 50 times and is the most highly cited article published in BMC Biology
Summary
BMC Biology launched in November 2003, under the stewardship of Peter Newmark and an international Editorial Board [1] as the flagship open access biology journal in the BMC series, publishing research of general interest and special importance across the biological sciences. The aim was to bridge a gap between the premier journal, Journal of Biology [2] a home for exceptional research, and the established specialist titles in the BMC series [3], such as BMC Bioinformatics, by providing a more selective home for articles of broader interest. We are absolutely delighted with our impact factor of five, but how was this achieved?
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