Global informetric perspective studies on translational medical research

Table 1 Basic information of top productive journals

No	Journal	Records	Country	IF¹ (2012)
1	Translational Research	323	USA	3.490
2	Science Translational Medicine	86	USA	10.757
3	CTS-Clinical and Translational Science	65	USA	2.330
4	Journal of Translational Medicine	48	England	3.459
5	Journal of Investigative Medicine	37	USA	1.746
6	Clinical Cancer Research	35	USA	7.837
7	Diabetes Care	34	USA	7.735
8	Academic Medicine	34	USA	3.292
9	European Journal of Cancer	33	England	5.061
10	PLoS One	27	USA	3.730
10	Annals of Oncology	27	England	7.384

¹ IF is impact factor, devised by Eugene Garfield, is calculated yearly starting from 1975 for those journals that are indexed in the Journal Citation Reports. The impact factor (IF) of an academic journal is a measure reflecting the average number of citations for recent articles published in the journal. It is frequently used as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal within its field, journals with higher impact factors deemed to be more important than those with lower ones.