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I am looking for a journal with at least 3-4 impact factor for publishing data related to epitope mapping using bioinformatics algorithms. I have tried many good journals but all are asking for the validation of my results. I cannot go for the wet lab validation due to some unavoidable circumstances. Can anyone please suggest me some good journals with IF with or around 3. Thanks in advance.
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Bioinformatics journals sorted based on the impact factor:
Computational Molecular Science : 11.885
Molecular Systems Biology : 10.872
Briefings In Bioinformatics : 9.617
Nucleic Acids Research : 9.112
Dna Research : 5.477
Bioinformatics : 4.981
PLOS Computational Biology : 4.829
Statistical Methods in Medical Research : 4.472
BMC Genomics : 3.986
International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation : 3.969
Database : 3.372
Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design : 2.990
Neuroinformatics : 2.825
Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics : 2.627
BMC Bioinformatics : 2.576
BMC Systems Biology : 2.435
Journal of Biomedical Informatics : 2.194
Journal of Theoretical Biology : 2.116
BioData Mining : 2.024
Journal of Mathematical Biology : 1.846
Journal of Computational Neuroscience : 1.739
Journal of Computational Biology: 1.737
Algorithms for Molecular Biology : 1.463
Evolutionary Bioinformatics : 1.452
IEEE-ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics : 1.438
Bulletin of Mathematical Biology : 1.389
Mathematical Biosciences : 1.303
Computers in Biology and Medicine : 1.240
Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology : 1.127
Computational Biology and Chemistry : 1.117
Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling : 0.95
Current Bioinformatics : 0.921
Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology : 0.873
Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering : 0.840
International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics : 0495
I'd just like to say that it is widely acknowledged that the concept of Impact Factor is in itself very flawed. See for instance wikipedia or this blog entry in nature where the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment is discussed.
So my recommendation: do not worry about impact factors at all. Make sure your paper is sound: citations will eventually decide if it is good or not, but not the IF of the journal where it happens to be accepted.
You can search the impact factor of any journal and the number of papers in published every year can be found here
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Try PloS One
Thanks Chirag. But the problem is we don't have funding. We need a journal with no publication charges.
Where are you from? As far as I remember, PLoS has some special policy for low-income countries. Also check this out: http://www.plos.org/publications/publication-fees/plos-publication-fee-assistance/
Thanks for the link. But I am really worried that they might reject my work because I don't have wet lab validation of my data. As when I went through the articles they have published, bioinformatics work with experimental validation . But I will give it a try. Thanks.
You should communicate (put forward financial situations of your lab, if your lab is hosted in low-income countries) with PloS.
How about BMC bioinformatics or Scientific Reports ?