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Tuesday, 03/19/2013
IDIBAPS Applied research in respiratory diseases is one of the Spanish groups with a higher impact factor in respiratory research
The number of articles published keeps growing and the impact factor has increased from 76.37 in 2008 to 160.66 in 2011
The Impact Factor of scientific articles published by members of the Applied research in respiratory diseases Group keeps rising. Whereas by the end of 2008 figures showed an Impact Factor of 76.37, at the end of 2011 it has reached 160.66. The group is within the top 10 research groups with higher Impact Factor of all IDIBAPS, the biomedical research center with a higher scientific production in Spain. It is also the most productive in terms of scientific articles in the CIBERES, the multi-institutional research network in respiratory diseases supported by the Spanish Government.
Only in 2011 the group published 33 original articles, most of them (21) in magazines in the first quartile. Clinical Infectious Diseases, Thorax, Chest, Crital Care Medicine and European Respiratory Journal are some of the most relevant medical journals in which original articles published by IDIBAPS Applied research in respiratory diseases Group members can be read. The provisional data for 2012 consolidate the growing trend of the group.
The Impact Factor rate is a measure reflecting the average number of citations to articles published in scientific journals. Devised by Eugene Garfield, the founder of the Institute for Scientific Information, the Impact Factors are calculated yearly for those journals that are indexed in Thomson Reuter’s Journal Citation Reports, the aim of which is to critically evaluate the world’s leading journals according to their importance