Journal's Impact Factor Soars

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As the Journal of the National Cancer Institute left the government for the private sector Jan. 1, its staff learned that its impact factor in 1995 was again number one among primary cancer journals.

The 1995 Science Citation Index rates papers published in 1993 and 1994 by their citations in 1995. The Journal's impact factor was 10.16 (average number of citations per article published). In 1994 it also ranked first among cancer journals with a factor of 7.94.

Among the primary cancer journals, number two was Cancer Research , the journal published by the American Association of Cancer Research.

Among general medical journals, JNCI was behind only the New England Journal of Medicine and Lancet . It was ahead of Annals of Internal Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association , and the British Medical Journal . It also surpassed the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Blood, Circulation , and others.