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27 Jul 2011

Most Indian Bio-Medical Journals with Top Impact Factors are Open Access Journals

Few days back I got an email giving latest (2010) Impact Factors for Indian Journals according to JCR. I selected Bio-Medical Journals out of these and ranked them according to their Impact Factors.

Journal

ISSN

IF (2010)

Access Type

J BIOSCIENCES

0250-5991

1.888

Open

INDIAN J MED RES

0971-5916

1.826

Open

J POSTGRAD MED

0022-3859

1.589

Open

J GENET

0022-1333

1.338

Open

INDIAN J VIROL

0970-2822

1.133

Closed

ANN THORAC MED

1817-1737

1.06

Open

INDIAN J MED MICROBI

0255-0857

1.006

Open

INDIAN J MICROBIOL

0046-8991

0.938

Closed

INDIAN J DERMATOL VE

0378-6323

0.932

Open

INDIAN PEDIATR

0019-6061

0.9

Open

NEUROL INDIA

0028-3886

0.834

Open

INDIAN J OPHTHALMOL

0301-4738

0.827

Open

J CANCER RES THER

0973-1482

0.825

Open

ALLELOPATHY J

0971-4693

0.635

Closed

INDIAN J PATHOL MICR

0377-4929

0.57

Open

NATL MED J INDIA

0970-258X

0.541

Open

INT J DIABETES DEV C

0973-3930

0.509

Closed

INDIAN J PEDIATR

0019-5456

0.502

Closed

INDIAN J PHARM SCI

0250-474X

0.455

Open

PHARMACOGN MAG

0973-1296

0.432

Open

ANN INDIAN ACAD NEUR

0972-2327

0.415

Open

INDIAN J PHARMACOL

0253-7613

0.303

Open

INDIAN J ORTHOP

0019-5413

0.285

Open

INDIAN J PHARM EDUC

0019-5464

0.163

Open

Contrary to the common myth that open access journals lack quality - the top journals, as can be seen from above table, are Open Access Journals.