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5-YEAR ARTICLE IMPACT IMMEDIACY EIGENFACTOR INDUSTRY IMPACT INFLUENCE CATEGORY* FACTOR* INDEX* SCORE* RANK* CHEMISTRY JOURNALS FACTOR* SCORE*

Monthly Direct Biochemistry Total Journals in Cluster: 16** Email Recipients: 9,641**

BMC Biotechnology Biotechnology & biomedcentral.com/bmcbiotechnol 2.452 2.748 0.402 0.00627 0.774 63/161 Applied Microbiology

Cell Communication & Signaling biosignaling.com 3.661 4.592 0.533 0.00564 1.394 77/187 Cell Biology

Cell Division celldiv.com 2.278 3.043 0.667 0.00168 1.183 133/187 Cell Biology

Nutrition & Metabolism nutritionandmetabolism.com 3.280 3.650 0.290 0.00628 1.013 25/78 Nutrition & Dietetics

Monthly Direct General Chemistry Total Journals in Cluster: 6** Email Recipients: 3,520**

Chemistry Central Journal Chemistry, ccj.springeropen.com 2.552 2.500 0.235 0.00413 0.507 62/163 Multidisciplinary

Geochemical Transactions Geochemistry & geochemicaltransactions.com 1.100 1.976 0.000 0.00043 0.672 54/81 Geophysics

Heritage Science heritagesciencejournal.com n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a

Journal of Cheminformatics Computer science, jcheminf.com 3.949 n/a 0.770 0.00563 n/a 5/143 Information Systems

5-YEAR ARTICLE IMPACT IMMEDIACY EIGENFACTOR INDUSTRY IMPACT INFLUENCE CATEGORY* FACTOR* INDEX* SCORE* RANK* HEALTH JOURNALS FACTOR* SCORE*

Monthly Direct Health Services Research Total Journals in Cluster: 13** Email Recipients: 6,721**

BMC Health Services Research Health Care Sciences biomedcentral.com/bmchealthservres 1.606 2.184 0.204 0.02780 0.760 53/87 & Services

Human Resources for Health human-resources-health.com 2.416 2.648 0.177 0.00279 0.721 16/74 Health Policy & Services

Implementation Science Health Care Sciences implementationscience.com 3.201 4.325 0.509 0.01399 1.370 14/87 & Services

BMC Family Practice biomedcentral.com/bmcfampract 1.641 2.015 0.232 0.00800 0.674 7/20 Primary Health Care

Monthly Direct Public Health Total Journals in Cluster: 11** Email Recipients: 7,321**

BMC Public Health Public, Environmental & biomedcentral.com/bmcpublichealth 2.209 2.746 0.225 0.08031 0.951 58/172 Occupational Health

Environmental Health ehjournal.net 3.453 3.732 0.467 0.00998 1.225 43/225 Environmental Sciences

Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases ojrd.com 3.290 4.129 0.400 0.01367 1.460 57/165 Genetics &

Particle and Fibre Toxicology particleandfibretoxicology.com 8.649 9.618 0.312 0.00916 2.410 2/89 Toxicology

Media Kit 2017 | BioMed Central | 5 *2015 Journal Citation Reports (Thomson Reuters, 2016), **Publisher Data 2016 5-YEAR ARTICLE IMPACT IMMEDIACY EIGENFACTOR INDUSTRY IMPACT INFLUENCE CATEGORY* FACTOR* INDEX* SCORE* RANK* BIOLOGY JOURNALS FACTOR* SCORE*

Monthly Direct Bioinformatics Total Journals in Cluster: 23** Email Recipients: 7,379**

BMC Bioinformatics 2.435 3.443 0.396 0.06818 1.427 39/77 Biochemical Research biomedcentral.com/bmcbioinformatics Methods

BMC Biology biomedcentral.com/bmcbiol 6.967 7.104 0.630 0.01610 2.977 5/86 Biology

BMC Structural Biology biomedcentral.com/bmcstructbiol 1.926 2.040 0.273 0.00250 0.826 46/72 Biophysics

BMC Systems Biology 2.213 2.900 0.388 0.01665 1.052 11/56 Mathematical & biomedcentral.com/bmcsystbiol Computational Biology

Monthly Direct Cell & Molecular Biology Total Journals in Cluster: 40** Email Recipients: 13,563**

BMC Cell Biology 2.584 2.986 0.241 0.00422 0.955 114/187 Cell Biology biomedcentral.com/bmccellbiol

BMC Molecular Biology Biochemistry & bmcmolbiol.biomedcentral.com 2.500 2.665 0.522 0.00333 0.897 161/289 Molecular Biology

Microbial Cell Factories Biotechnology & microbialcellfactories.com 3.744 4.281 0.451 0.01142 1.080 35/161 Applied Microbiology

Stem Cell Research & Therapy stemcellres.com 4.504 4.814 0.424 0.00682 1.163 52/187 Cell Biology

5-YEAR ARTICLE IMPACT IMMEDIACY EIGENFACTOR INDUSTRY IMPACT INFLUENCE CATEGORY* FACTOR* INDEX* SCORE* RANK* FACTOR* SCORE*

Monthly Direct Genetics & Genomics Total Journals in Cluster: 56** Email Recipients: 11,442**

BMC Genetics biomedcentral.com/bmcgenet 2.152 2.703 0.235 0.00802 0.854 100/165 Genetics & Heredity

BMC Genomics Biotechnology & biomedcentral.com/bmcgenomics 3.867 4.278 0.520 0.09426 1.337 32/161 Applied Microbiology

Epigenetics & Chromatin epigeneticsandchromatin.com 4.873 4.464 0.614 0.00451 2.128 26/165 Genetics & Heredity

Genome Biology Biotechnology & genomebiology.com 11.313 13.168 1.826 0.08700 6.815 5/161 Applied Microbiology

Genome Medicine 5.700 4.919 0.876 0.01101 2.094 18/165 Genetics & Heredity genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com

Monthly Direct Neuroscience Total Journals in Cluster: 29** Email Recipients: 7,281**

Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy alzres.com 5.197 5.126 0.921 0.00538 1.726 19/192 Clinical Neurology

BMC Neuroscience biomedcentral.com/bmcneurosci 2.304 2.830 0.177 0.01001 0.893 162/256 Neurosciences

Journal of Neuroinflammation jneuroinflammation.com 4.667 5.366 0.688 0.02053 1.462 50/256 Neurosciences

Molecular Brain molecularbrain.com 3.745 4.159 0.443 0.00608 1.454 73/256 Neurosciences

6 | BioMed Central | Media Kit 2017 *2015 Journal Citation Reports (Thomson Reuters, 2016), **Publisher Data 2016 5-YEAR ARTICLE IMPACT IMMEDIACY EIGENFACTOR INDUSTRY IMPACT INFLUENCE CATEGORY* FACTOR* INDEX* SCORE* RANK* MEDICINE JOURNALS FACTOR* SCORE*

Monthly Direct Cancer Total Journals in Cluster: 22** Email Recipients: 9,315**

Breast Cancer Research 5.211 6.260 1.015 0.02713 2.135 32/213 Oncology breast-cancer-research.com

Molecular Cancer Biochemistry & molecular-cancer.com 5.888 5.780 1.077 0.02205 1.480 36/289 Molecular Biology

Radiation Oncology 2.466 2.768 0.335 0.01412 0.837 132/213 Oncology ro-journal.com

World Journal of Surgical Oncology wjso.com 1.286 1.458 0.198 0.00697 0.362 188/213 Oncology

Monthly Direct Cardiovascular Disorders Total Journals in Cluster: 6** Email Recipients: 7,855**

BMC Cardiovascular Disorders Cardiac & bmccardiovascdisord.biomedcentral.com 1.916 2.015 0.129 0.00593 0.670 72/124 Cardiovascular Systems

Cardiovascular Diabetology 4.534 3.901 0.527 0.00956 0.905 23/124 Cardiac & cardiab.com Cardiovascular Systems

Cardiovascular Ultrasound Cardiac & cardiovascularultrasound.com 1.463 1.664 0.146 0.00178 0.489 85/124 Cardiovascular Systems

Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Cardiac & jcmr-online.com 5.752 5.437 0.518 0.01202 1.767 12/124 Cardiovascular Systems

5-YEAR ARTICLE IMPACT IMMEDIACY EIGENFACTOR INDUSTRY IMPACT INFLUENCE CATEGORY* FACTOR* INDEX* SCORE* RANK* FACTOR* SCORE* Critical, Intensive Care Monthly Direct and Emergency Medicine Total Journals in Cluster: 15** Email Recipients: 7,175**

Critical Care 4.950 5.406 1.054 0.04549 1.739 7/33 Critical Care Medicine ccforum.biomedcentral.com

Monthly Direct Immunology Total Journals in Cluster: 8** Email Recipients: 9,310**

Arthritis Research & Therapy arthritis-research.com 3.979 4.707 0.478 0.02974 1.434 8/32 Rheumatology

BMC Immunology biomedcentral.com/bmcimmunol 2.161 2.594 0.411 0.00376 0.753 107/150 Immunology

BMC Medicine Medicine, General & biomedcentral.com/bmcmed 8.005 8.384 1.383 0.03121 2.944 8/151 Internal

Journal of Inflammation journal-inflammation.com 1.975 2.570 0.381 0.00247 0.714 117/150 Immunology

Monthly Direct Infectious diseases Total Journals in Cluster: 4** Email Recipients: 8,528**

Malaria Journal malariajournal.com 3.079 3.231 0.523 0.03094 0.945 24/83 Infectious Diseases

Parasites & Vectors parasitesandvectors.com 3.234 3.413 0.655 0.02181 0.915 8/36 Parasitology

Retrovirology retrovirology.com 3.989 3.586 0.900 0.01239 1.406 9/33 Virology

Veterinary Research veterinaryresearch.org 2.928 3.290 0.379 0.00821 1.013 3/138 Veterinary Sciences

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