This blog post is a detailed summary of the Cambridge Journals performance in the 2014 Thomson Reuters JCR® Impact Factor results.

Summary

Impact Factors for Cambridge Journals on the Social Sciences category increased by an average 10.2%. Science journals rose by an average of 6.9%. Across all journals the average change was an increase of 8.7%. For comparison, Social Science categories that include Cambridge Journals rose by 5.1%. For science the increase was 3.6%.

The 2014 Impact Factor scores therefore show that Cambridge Journals outperformed the total aggregate average change across all subject categories.

Over half of Cambridge Journals gained a higher Impact Factor score than the year before and five journals received their first Impact Factor score – The Historical Journal, International Labor and Working-Class History, Transnational Environmental Law, Acta Numerica, International Journal of Tropical Insect Science. Impressively, Acta Numerica became the #1 Mathematics journal in its first year of being granted an Impact Factor score.

In response to Acta Numerica‘s achievment, Arieh Iserles (Editor and Emeritus Professor at Cambridge University) commented; “I’m delighted that, having been already placed by American Mathematical Society at the top of Mathematical Reviews Citation Database, Acta Numerica has achieved such a high Impact Factor – to be placed first in mathematics out of over three hundred journals goes some way to recognising the importance and quality of the articles published in the journal.”

Three other journals joined Acta Numerica in ranking #1 for their respective categories – Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The Journal of Economic History, and Theory and Practice of Logic Programming. Behavioral and Brain Sciences also ranked #2 in the Behavioral Sciences category and #3 in Neurosciences.

Overall, 16 Cambridge Journals are in the top 3 of their categories, with 27 journals (in 32 categories) in the top 10.

Area Studies

Africa is the #6 Area Studies journal and the #2 African Studies title in the Area Studies category. The Journal of Modern African Studies ranked at #16 overall and is in the top 5 African Studies titles in the Area Studies category. Other good performances include The China Quarterly ranking at #9 overall and the Journal of Latin American Studies securing its place as the #1 Latin American Studies title in the category.

Agriculture, Dairy, and Animal Science

Animal‘s Impact Factor score of 1.841 is an increase of 81% since 2008, placing it in the top 10 of the Agriculture, Dairy, and Animal Science category.

Business and Management

Cambridge’s growing Business and Management list continues to perform well with Management and Organization Review being ranked within the top 15 for Management with an impact factor of 3.277 and Business Ethics Quarterly being ranked 3rd in the Ethics category.

History

Highlights from the History category include the Journal of Economic History ranking at #1 (as mentioned earlier in this post) and the Journal of Global History ranked #3. The Journal of African History ranked #8 overall and is the #1 African History title. In its inaugural Impact Factor year The Historical Journal ranked #20 out of 87 titles.

International Relations

The Review of International Studies rose to #26 out of 85 in the International Relations category.

Law

Transnational Environmental Law gained its first Impact Factor score and is the #3 environmental law journal. European Constitutional Law Review saw a big increase in its score, going from 0.684 to 1.486.

Linguistics

5 titles scored in the top 25 journals for Linguistics, with Bilingualism: Language and Cognition scoring 6th overall with an Impact Factor now over 2.

Logic

3 out of the top 5 journals in the Logic category are published by Cambridge University Press: Theory and Practice of Logic Programming, The Review of Symbolic Logic, and Bulletin of Symbolic Logic.

Ornithology

Bird Conservation International, published on behalf of Birdlife International, is now the 4th highest journal in the field.

Parasitology

Parasitology is in the 2nd quartile of the Parasitology category with an increased Impact Factor of 2.560.

Political Science

The British Journal of Political Science ranked #15 out of 161 journals.

Full Rankings

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