The average impact factor (IF) now stands at 5.5. RSC Publishing figures have risen by 59 percent since 2003 - almost double the average increase for chemistry publishers.Of the top 20 journals in the multidisciplinary chemistry category, six are from RSC Publishing.

Eighty three percent of RSC journals listed in this year's report have an IF above 3.

Results of particular note included Chemical Society Reviews, which now has an IF of 26.58, Chemical Communications at 5.79, and Energy & Environmental Science's rise to 9.45 maintains its position as the leading Environmental Science journal.

Newly-launched journals that received impressive first IFs include Nanoscale (7.00), Integrative Biology (4.44) and Metallomics (3.59)

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