Achieving our mission: Breadth in the best basic and clinical sleep research

Sleep

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 951-952

  Dinges, David F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Division of Sleep and Chronobiology   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; SLEEP;

EID: 34547674523     PISSN: 01618105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sleep/30.8.951     Document Type: Editorial

References (5)

1. SM the following scientific journals, which publish sleep research, have lower 2006 impact factors than SLEEP (5.126): American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory Integrative & Comparative Physiology; Anesthesiology; Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine; Brain Behavior and Immunity; Brain Research; Chest; Chronobiology International; Clinical Neurophysiology; CNS Drugs; Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology; Cortex; Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism; European Neuropsychopharmacology; European Journal of Neurology; European Journal of Neuroscience; European Neurology; European Respiratory Journal; Human Brain Mapping; International Journal of Obesity; Journal of The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Journal of Applied Physiology; Journal of Biological Rhythms; Journal of Comparative Neurology; Journal of Neurobiology; Journal of Neuroimmunology; Journal of Neurology; Journal of Neurophysiology; Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine; Journal of Pediatrics; Journal of Physiology - London; Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience; Journal of Pineal Research; Journal of Psychopharmacology; Journal of Rheumatology; Journal of Sleep Research; Journals of Gerontology Series A - Biological and Medical Sciences; Learning & Memory; Movement Disorders; Life Sciences; Neuropharmacology; Neuroscience; Obesity Research; Pain; Pediatrics; Psychiatry Research-Neuroimaging; Psychiatry Research; Psychoneuroendocrinology; Psychopharmacology; Psychophysiology; Psychosomatic Medicine; Psychosomatics; Sleep Medicine; Sleep Medicine Reviews.
2. Journals dedicated exclusively to review articles do not publish original scientific discoveries. Such journals often have high citation indices because reviews are by definition reference rich and frequently cited, especially in clinical areas. In contrast, journals that focus on original scientific discoveries often limit the number of references per article for space limitations - SLEEP does this. Consequently, comparing impact factors of dedicated review journals to those dedicated to publishing original science is an apples-to-oranges comparison.
3. Dinges, D.F.: (Editorial) SLEEP celebrates its 30th anniversary!. Sleep, 30(1):11, 2007.
4. Impact factor is not the only way to compare SLEEP to other journals. For example, as of July 25, 2007, the median citation in peer review publications of the top 20 most cited original articles published in SLEEP between 2004 and 2007, was 29 per article, which is nearly double that of the top 20 articles published in the same time period in the Journal of Sleep Research (median 12), Sleep Medicine (median 15), and Sleep Medicine Reviews (median 15.5). It is also higher than the number of times the top 20 sleep (as key word) articles published in other high profile journals were cited (e.g., American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, median 23; JAMA + NEJM, median 11.5; Journal of Neuroscience, median 19; Nature + Science, median 24.5)
5. Dinges, D.F.: (Editorial) Publishing the best original sleep research. Sleep 29(8):1000-1001, 2006.