Last week, Thomson Reuters announced the 2012 ISI impact factors. The Macromolecular journals could confirm their leading role in the field of polymer science.
Macromolecular Rapid Communications remains the highest Impact Factor communications journal in polymer science. For the seventh time in a row its impact factor increased, to a value of 4.929, consolidating its position as a top journal publishing original research in general polymer science.
Some of last year’s highlights which will be contributing to the MRC’s impact factor in 2013 can now be accessed for free!
- Haifeng Gao (University of Notre Dame, USA) explains how star polymers containing one central core surrounded by multiple radiating arms can to be used as unimolecular containers and reactors.
- C. Barner-Kowollik and Ozcan Altintas highlight the most recent progress in the area of single polymer chain folding, attempting towards mimicking the structure of natural biomacromolecules.
- The synthesis and polymerization of benzodithiophenes to generate semiconducting polymers used in organic field-effect transistors (OFET) and organic solar cells is reviewed by Mihaela C. Stefan.
Macromolecular Bioscience – the leading journal at the intersection of polymer and materials science with life sciences and medicine – reached again an excellent result with a new Impact Factor of 3.7, ranking it among the top 5 biomaterials journals and among the top 10 polymer journals.
Read now for free: Advances in Polymeric Systems for Tissue Engineering and Biomedical Applications by Seeram Ramakrishna.
Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics – combining the longest tradition in the field with the publication of newest results, latest trends, and their critical evaluation – has reached a slightly increased new Impact Factor of 2.4. The following top article can now be accessed for free:
Rolf Mülhaupt: “Green Polymer Chemistry and Bio-based Plastics: Dreams and Reality”
Macromolecular Materials & Engineering enjoys a new Impact Factor of 2.3, an increase by nearly 20%. It is the highest value in the journal’s history and confirms again MME’s position as the leading journal focusing on the design and processing of advanced polymeric materials. The following top article can now be accessed for free:
Stoyko Fakirov: “Nano- and Microfibrillar Single-Polymer Composites: A Review”
Macromolecular Theory & Simulations – the high-quality polymer science journal dedicated exclusively to theory and simulations – after last year’s strong increase reached a new Impact Factor of 1.6. The following top article can now be accessed for free:
Krzysztof Matyjaszewski et al.: “Kinetic Modeling of ICAR ATRP”
Macromolecular Reaction Engineering – the only high-quality journal dedicated exclusively to academic and industrial research in the field of polymer reaction engineering – following last year’s all-time-high value reached a new Impact Factor of 1.6. The following top article can now be accessed for free:
C. Barner-Kowollik et al.: “Investigating Cu(0)-Mediated Polymerizations: New Kinetic Insights Based on a Comparison of Kinetic Modeling with Experimental Data”
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