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FEATURED ARTICLE
"The Causal Effect of Studying on Academic Performance"
In their award-winning article in The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, Ralph Stinebrickner and Todd R. Stinebrickner examine the relationship between studying and grade performance, with surprising results.
FEATURED EDITOR
David Grinspoon
Internationally known planetary scientist, NASA advisor, and curator of Astrobiology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, David Grinspoon is associate editor of Studies in Ethics, Law, and Technology, a major new journal of interdisciplinary science studies.
NEW JOURNAL
Law & Ethics of Human Rights
A journal of human rights law and its intersection with political theory and policy. Each issue focuses on one contemporary human rights dilemma that raises major legal and moral questions for ethicists, legal scholars, and policy-makers alike. Topics include multiculturalism and anti-discrimination, the use of demographic considerations to shape public policy, and international labor rights and regulations. Edited by some of the world’s most distinguished human rights scholars, from leading international law schools such as Harvard, Princeton, and Tel Aviv University, the journal will be of interest to an audience of ethicists, policy researchers, and government practitioners, as well as law scholars.
$300 for a one-year subscription.
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NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
2007 Impact Factor News
SAGMB is now the #5 ranked statistics journal in ISI
Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology (SAGMB) received an outstanding first impact factor in the 2007 Journal Citation Reports from Thomson/ISI. The journal’s impact factor is 2.167. It ranks #5 of all 91 statistics journal in the ISI Science Citation Index. This is an exceptional showing: in its first year, SAGMB joins such established titles such as Bioinformatics, Biostatistics, and Journal of the Royal Statistics Society B in the top five. SAGMB also ranks 155th out of 263 biochemistry & molecular biology journals, a category that includes some of the most heavily cited titles in science research, such as Cell and PLoS Biology.
Another bepress journal, International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering (IJCRE) also received its first impact factor with the 2007 Journal Citation Reports. The journal’s impact factor is 0.75, and it ranks 58th out of the 114 chemical engineering journals in the Science Citation Index. This is a strong showing for a journal’s first impact factor: the journal is solidly placed in the middle of all chemical engineering journals. IJCRE remains the only journal that focuses on chemical reactor engineering.
Finally, Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics (SNDE) now has an impact factor of 0.593, and ranks #104 out of 191 economics journals. SNDE's impact and rank has grown steadily over the past years: the 2007 impact factor represents a 42% increase over its 2005 impact factor of 0.418. SNDE is well on its way to becoming one of the top-ranked econometrics journals in the field.
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