Rating of Scientific Journals — page 9

Nature Biotechnology is a peer reviewed scientific journal published monthly by the Nature Publishing Group. The focus of the journal is biotechnology including research results and the commercial business sector of this field. Coverage includes the related biological, biomedical, agricultural and environmental sciences. Also of interest are the commercial, political, legal, and societal influences that affect this field.

The Lancet is a weekly peer-reviewed general medical journal. It is one of the world`s best known, oldest, and most respected general medical journals. The Lancet was founded in 1823 by Thomas Wakley, an English surgeon who named it after the surgical instrument called a lancet, as well as after the term «lancet arch», a window with a sharp pointed arch, to indicate the «light of wisdom» or «to let in light». It publishes original research articles, review articles («seminars» and «reviews»), editorials, book reviews, correspondence, as well as news features and case reports. The Lancet has been owned by Elsevier since 1991.The journal has editorial offices in London, New York, and Beijing.

Nature Medicine is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal publishing research articles, reviews, news and commentaries in the biomedical area, including both basic research and early-phase clinical research covering all aspects of medicine. The journal seeks to publish research papers that «demonstrate novel insight into disease processes, with direct evidence of the physiological relevance of the results».

The Annual Review of Genetics, in publication since 1967, covers significant developments in the field of genetics. These include biochemical, behavioral, cell, and developmental genetics; evolutionary and population genetics; chromosome structure and transmission; gene function and expression; mutation and repair; genomics; immunogenetics; and other topics as related to the genetics of viruses, bacteria, fungi, plants, and animals, including humans.