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The Journal of Nuclear Medicine (JNM) is a peer-reviewed, monthly publication published by the Society of Nuclear Medicine. JNM has been in publication for more than 40 years and provides more than 17,000 readers with information on nuclear and molecular imaging research.

The current editor of JNM is Heinrich Schelbert, MD, professor of molecular and medical pharmacology at the University of California at Los Angeles and George V. Taplin professor at the university's David Geffen School of Medicine. Beginning in 2011, Dominique Delbeke, MD, PhD, professor and director of nuclear medicine and positron emission tomography in the Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., will begin her five-year term as editor in chief.

Aim and Scope
Every month, JNM brings readers around the globe clinical investigations, basic science reports, continuing education articles, book reviews, employment opportunities, and updates on rapidly changing issues in practice and research. JNM’s Newsline offers in-depth reporting on news affecting every facet of the field—the latest scientific events, government decisions, industry developments, socio-economic trends, and a broad selection of reviews from the literature.

Impact Factor and Ranking
JNM has been ranked the top medical imaging journal worldwide for the past three years (2008-2010), according to the 2010 Journal Citation Reports© published by Thomson Reuters.

The journal has an impact factor of 7.022. The Thomson Reuters Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) measures a journal’s impact—or significance—based on the number of article citations compared to the total number of articles published. The impact factor—a quantitative measure of the frequency with which an article in a journal is cited—is used to gauge the overall influence of a journal within scientific, professional and academic communities.

The Journal Citation Report also publishes several other measurements for journals, including the total citations, immediacy index, five-year impact factor and Eigenfactor—the rating of total importance. In the 2010 report, JNM saw increases in each of these categories, most significantly an 80 percent increase in the Eigenfactor.