Nano Today ranked no. 2 among global nanoscience and nanotech journal

SINGAPORE, July 5 (Bernama) -- With a significant increase in impact factor of 31 per cent from 11.750 to 15.355, Nano Today is now ranked number two out of 66 journals in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, according to the latest Journal Citation Reports® published by Thomson Reuters in June 2012. The journal is ranked fourth out of 231 journals in Materials Science (Multidisciplinary), and fifth out of 152 journals in Chemistry (Multidisciplinary), consolidating its position as a leading journal that serves a broad readership. Nano Today is also the only Asia-based journal among the top five journals in each list. Editor-in-Chief Professor Jackie Y. Ying said: “I would like to thank the readers, authors, referees, editorial advisory board and our managing editor Noreena AbuBakar for all their contributions and support. "Nanotechnology is a rapidly advancing field that holds great potential to benefit society through the creation of new materials or devices." Nano Today is an international, peer-reviewed journal for researchers with interests across the whole spectrum of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Since successfully transitioning from a magazine to a journal format in 2009, it has recorded major increases in impact factor from 5.929 in 2007 to 15.355 in 2011. -- BERNAMA