''The Scientific World Journal'' (formerly, ''The ScientificWorldJournal'') is a

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covering fields in the

life sciences This list of life sciences comprises the branches of science that involve the scientific study of life – such as microorganisms, plants, and animals including human beings. This science is one of the two major branches of natural science, th ...

ranging from

biomedicine Biomedicine (also referred to as Western medicine, mainstream medicine or conventional medicine)

environmental science Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physics, biology, and geography (including ecology, chemistry, plant science, zoology, mineralogy, oceanography, limnology, soil science, geology and physical ...

s. It was established in 2001 and is published by

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Hindawi is a publisher of peer-reviewed, open access, scientific journals currently active in scientific, technical, and medical (STM) literature. It was founded in 1997 in Cairo, Egypt, but purchased in 2021 by John Wiley & Sons, a publishing co ...

. The journal was delisted in the 2015 ''

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'' (thus not receiving an

impact factor The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a scientometric index calculated by Clarivate that reflects the yearly mean number of citations of articles published in the last two years in a given journal, as ...

) because of "anomalous citation patterns".

Publication history

The journal was established in 2001 and is published online and in print. From 2001 to 2011, the

managing editor A managing editor (ME) is a senior member of a publication's management team. Typically, the managing editor reports directly to the editor-in-chief and oversees all aspects of the publication. United States In the United States, a managing edito ...

was

Graham Lees Graham Vaughan Lees is a publisher and founding editor-in-chief of ''The Scientific World Journal'', which he edited until the summer of 2011. He is the owner of Corpus Alienum Oy, a Finnish publisher. Education Lees obtained a PhD in Neur ...

. In 2011, the journal was acquired by

and converted to

open access Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 definition), or libre o ...

and to a model without an

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. According to

Institute for Scientific Information The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) was an academic publishing service, founded by Eugene Garfield in Philadelphia in 1956. ISI offered scientometric and bibliographic database services. Its specialty was citation indexing and analysi ...

counts, the number of published items in the journal grew steadily from 141 to 227 articles per year between 2008 and 2011 and then increased over fivefold to 1,149 articles in 2011.

Organization

The journal was divided into "domains", each covering a particular subject (e.g., "

Neuroscience Neuroscience is the science, scientific study of the nervous system (the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system), its functions and disorders. It is a Multidisciplinary approach, multidisciplinary science that combines physiology, an ...

") and some of these domains could be joined further into "clusters" (e.g., "Neuroscience,

Neurology Neurology (from el, νεῦρον (neûron), "string, nerve" and the suffix -logia, "study of") is the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the brain, the spinal ...

Psychiatry Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental disorders. These include various maladaptations related to mood, behaviour, cognition, and perceptions. See glossary of psychiatry. Initial p ...

"). Each domain had its own set of principal and associate editors, as well as an

editorial board The editorial board is a group of experts, usually at a publication, who dictate the tone and direction the publication's editorial policy will take. Mass media At a newspaper, the editorial board usually consists of the editorial page editor, ...

. Published articles could be assigned to multiple, different domains, so that an article on, for example, air particulates could be found easily both by researchers working in

environmental A biophysical environment is a biotic and abiotic surrounding of an organism or population, and consequently includes the factors that have an influence in their survival, development, and evolution. A biophysical environment can vary in scale f ...

Earth science Earth science or geoscience includes all fields of natural science related to the planet Earth. This is a branch of science dealing with the physical, chemical, and biological complex constitutions and synergistic linkages of Earth's four spher ...

s and biomedical researchers searching for causes of

asthma Asthma is a long-term inflammatory disease of the airways of the lungs. It is characterized by variable and recurring symptoms, reversible airflow obstruction, and easily triggered bronchospasms. Symptoms include episodes of wheezing, c ...

. After the journal was taken over by Hindawi, it was reorganized according to a more traditional model with more rigid subject sections. However, the journal has no formal editor-in-chief any more and decisions regarding acceptance or rejection of a manuscript appear to be made by majority vote from a mix of external reviewers and editors (whose identity remains confidential unless a manuscript is accepted for publication).

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the ''

'', the journal had a 2013

of 1.219. However, the journal did not receive an impact factor over 2011, nor was it listed in the 2015 ''Journal Citation Reports'' because of "anomalous citation patterns".

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Scientific World Journal, The Biology journals English-language journals Publications established in 2001 General medical journals Open access journals Hindawi Publishing Corporation academic journals