Journal impact factor

[shahis77]

Which journal is the best in terms of impact factor in chromatography field.

[Alfred88]

Dear shahis77,
I think that JACS still has the most weight (unless you are not in US).

Are you on a TT (tenure-track) position, or are you considering one?
I heard that the funding rate is ~10% for all grant proposals currently, so it's difficult to get funding, and many Assistant Prof. do not get tenure!

Here is a story to consider in the pharma industry:
Chemist Who Helped Invent Lipitor Gets Laid Off. (2007). Source: http://www.pharmalot.com/2007/12/chemis ... -laid-off/
Getting patents/publications did not help the chief scientist!

[Kazimierz]

Dear Shakis77,

The ranking of IF for medical journals in 2007 y is:
http://www.czd.pl/pliki/bibiloteka/2007 ... factor.pdf
The good Impact factor for journal publishing HPLC articles is >3.5, f.e.
Clin Chem 4.803
J Biol Chem 5.581
J Med Chem 4.895
Curr Drug Metab 4.490
Lab Invest 4.479
Antimicrob Agents Chemother 4.39
J Lipid Res 4.336
J Pharmacol Exp Ther 4.003
J Antimicrob Chemother 4.038
Biochem J 4.009
Biochem Pharmacol 4.006
AAPS J 3.751
J Chromatogr A 3.636

[shahis77]

Thank you everyone for your help and support

[shahis77]

Hello Alfred,

[Ron]

The most appropriate journal depends on the application. Since you are working in a clinical lab I would assume that your work would have much less impact in the AAPS journal than in Clin Chem. What journals does your supervisor read and refer to on a regular basis? If your co-workers give you references or copies of articles what Journals are they from? These are probably the journals you should be thinking about publishing in.

[shahis77]

Thanks Ron

[Kazimierz]

Dear Shahi,

Impact factor not necessary correlates with the professional level
of the Journal. Many chromatography Journals legitimates very low
impact factors, but represents very high professional levels.

It is requires, however, for the financial supports, obtaining research
grants, as well as for professional ranking of scientists and laboratories.

Because it is HPLC tandem mass-spectrometry, you may prepare
article exposing higher sensitivity and specificity analytical method
and application its for clinical practice.
You may add f.e. 4 pharmacokinetic curves (concentration/time)
using different patients and/or doses.

In this way you can try to submit article into IFactor-rich clinical Journal.
However, this need submit project into Local Ethical Commeetee and next
into US Clinical Trials.

[Kostas Petritis]

Generally speaking, chromatography falls under the analytical chemistry category and at that category the journal of citation reports ranks the journal "Analytical Chemistry" as the one with the highest impact factor (5.7 or so).

Having said that, it would be a poor choice to submit a LC-MS method development manuscript as it will probably won't get accepted (unless there is more into your paper).

People suggested some good alternatives...

[shahis77]

Thanks Kazinierz and Kostas Petritis for your suggestions.