High-Impact Obesity Journal Breaks the Record - 03.07.2008

The scientific journal Obesity Reviews is now the highest ranked scientific journal in the world within the field of nutritional science and obesity research. Editor-in-chief of the successful scientific journal is Professor Arne Astrup from Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen.

Arne Astrup is one of the world’s leading scientists within the field of food and health. In addition to being a professor at the Faculty of Life Sciences at University of Copenhagen, he is also the editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Obesity Reviews which has attained a record-high Impact Factor. Impact Factors, which are calculated by Thomson ISI, is a metric that reflects the frequency that peer-reviewed journals are cited by researchers. Obesity Reviews has attained a world record within its academic field with an Impact Factor of 7.8. For comparison, the Impact Factor of the famous American nutritional journal ‘American Journal of Clinical Nutrition’ is 6.6 and that of most other journals within this academic field lies between 1 and 4:

- From the beginning, it has been the strategy of the journal to secure a high academic level by involving the best and strongest research environments around the world. In this connection, the Faculty of Life Sciences is one of the important contributors submitting new research results within food and health, says Professor, Doctor of Medical Science in human nutrition Arne Astrup, who has been the editor-in-chief of the journal since its start in 2000.

Increase in submissions

-We expect the huge international success of the journal to lead to even more scientists submitting their articles for publication in the journal, especially because the Impact Factor of the scientists’ articles will form part of most universities’ assessment of the qualify of the research, continues Arne Astrup.

Obesity Reviews is an official review journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity, which has over 9,000 members, in more than 50 countries, with a rapidly increasing membership status.

The publishers, Wiley-Blackwell in Oxford, UK, praise the work of the editorial team in this important field of public health:

- Obesity Review's impressive achievement is evidence of the journal's commitment to providing high impact, good quality research to the medical community in an area of huge and growing importance to public health and the practice of medicine. We have thoroughly enjoyed our partnership with the International Association for the Study of Obesity, the Editor, Professor Arne Astrup, and the Editorial team to make Obesity Reviews such an instant success", says Dr Andrew Robinson, Managing Director, Medicine, Wiley-Blackwell.

For more information, please contact Arne Astrup at ast@life.ku.dk