The ISI® determines a journal’s influence in the scientific community by examining how many times articles are cited, along with the number of articles published within a two-year period. This number represents what ISI® calls a journal’s impact factor.
Organic Letters is ranked by ISI® at number seven, after only two years of publication. “Needless to say, we are delighted with this new data from ISI as it fully supports the quality and impact of Organic Letters as a leading journal in its field,” said Robert Bovenschulte, director of publications for the Society.
Organic Letters began in 1999 as a partnership between the Society and the Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition, with the goal of producing a quality journal at a significantly lower cost to library subscribers. The Society was the first major scholarly publisher to join SPARC in this endeavor. Organic Letters was the first publication under this agreement.
According to statistics compiled by SPARC, Organic Letters brought price moderation to spiraling library subscription rates. Even after a commercial competitor lowered its price, Organic Letters still made its debut costing one-third less.
“Organic Letters has proven that if libraries give high-quality new journals time to become financially viable, they can build the prestige they need to compete with even the most established players,” said Rick Johnson, SPARC enterprise director.
“The Society's association with SPARC is mutually beneficial and has served Organic Letters well,” said Amos Smith, editor of the monthly publication and Rhodes-Thompson Professor of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania. “The publication delivers cutting-edge research to the community and research libraries with a speed that has helped the journal to acquire its reputation in a relatively short period of time.”
For information regarding Organic Letters or other Society publications, go to pubs.acs.org/about.html. Also check the SPARC website at http://www.arl.org/sparc/core/index.asp?page=f45.