SIAM Announces ISI Journal Impact Factors

["Jessica E. Stephenson" <Stephenson@siam.org>]

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Jessica Stephenson
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Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Phone: 215-382-9800 x383
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Email: Stephenson@siam.org

For Immediate Release

SIAM Announces ISI Journal Impact Factors

July 24, 2007 - The Society for Industrial and Applied 
Mathematics has announced that its journals continue to be 
positioned at the top of their respective categories in impact 
factor rankings according to 2006 Journal Citation Reports (JCR) 
released by Thomson Scientific. Ten of SIAM's applied mathematics 
journals rank in the top 35 (out of 150) in that category.

The impact factors, released by Thomson Scientific's Institute 
for Scientific Information provide a ranking of the frequency in 
which researchers cite peer-reviewed journals; the higher the 
ranking, the more the journal's articles have been cited. SIAM is 
pleased to see its journal program increasing in value.

"It's gratifying to see that our journals continue to be highly 
cited and respected in the field of applied mathematics", said 
David Marshall, Publisher at SIAM. "Our goal has always been to 
publish content of the highest quality and the impact factors are 
one way of showing that we are succeeding."

Highlights of the 2006 ISI impact factors of SIAM Journals include:

-SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing raised its ranking from #12 
in 2005 to #6 in 2006

-SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications is now ranked 
#8, up from #26 in 2005

-SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics ranks #14, up from #29 in 
2005

-Siam Journal on Computing increased its ranking from #22 in 2005 
to #16 in 2006

-Multiscale Modeling and Simulation, in the Mathematics, 
Interdisciplinary Applications category, ranked 11 out of 65 in 
its third year

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