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High Impact and BioMed Central

Jan Velterop   (6 January 2004)

High Impact and BioMed Central 6 January 2004
Jan Velterop, Publisher 34-42 Cleveland Street, London W1T 4LB, UK Send response to journal: Re: High Impact and BioMed Central	It is unfortunate that Professor Neil Turner in his review of PloS Biology states that BioMed Central’s Open Access journals “have not yet attracted much high-impact science”. All articles published in the Journal of Biology (http://jbiol.com/articles/) are high-impact, and a tiny sample of the high-impact articles in other BioMed Central journals is shown below. We trust that he, and any reader taking a look at these articles, will conclude that his statement must be the result of a misunderstanding and that, although not all of the more than 4000 articles published to date can be considered high impact, there are rather more high-impact articles published in BioMed Central journals than the impression he gave. Jan Velterop Publisher, BioMed Central. The evolutionary position of nematodes. Blair JE, Ikeo K, Gojobori T, Hedges SB BMC Evol Biol 2002 Apr 8 2(1):7 (http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471- 2148/2/7) The methionine salvage pathway in Bacillus subtilis. Sekowska A, Danchin A BMC Microbiol 2002 Apr 25 2(1):8 (http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471- 2180/2/8) The relationship of protein conservation and sequence length. Lipman DJ, Souvorov A, Koonin EV, Panchenko AR, Tatusova TA BMC Evol Biol 2002 Nov 1 2(1):20 (http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471- 2148/2/20) Reducing hypothalamic AGRP by RNA interference increases metabolic rate and decreases body weight without influencing food intake. Makimura H, Mizuno TM, Mastaitis JW, Agami R, Mobbs CV BMC Neurosci 2002 Nov 7 3(1):18 (http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471- 2202/3/18) New knowledge from old: in silico discovery of novel protein domains in Streptomyces coelicolor. Yeats C, Bentley S, Bateman A BMC Microbiol 2003 Feb 6 3(1):3 (http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471- 2180/3/3) Survival of the fittest before the beginning of life: Selection of the first oligonucleotide-like polymers by UV light. Mulkidjanian AY, Cherepanov DA, Galperin MY BMC Evol Biol 2003 May 28 3(1):12 (http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/3/12) Evidence from comparative genomics for a complete sexual cycle in the 'asexual' pathogenic yeast Candida glabrata. Wong S, Fares MA, Zimmermann W, Butler G, Wolfe KH Genome Biol 2003 4(2):R10 (http://genomebiology.com/2003/4/2/R10) Horizontally transferred genes in plant-parasitic nematodes: a high- throughput genomic approach. Scholl EH, Thorne JL, McCarter JP, Bird DM Genome Biol 2003 4(6):R39 (http://genomebiology.com/2003/4/6/R39) Comparative genomics of archaea: how much have we learned in six years, and what's next? Makarova KS, Koonin EV Genome Biol 2003 4(8):115 (http://genomebiology.com/2003/4/8/115) The source of laterally transferred genes in bacterial genomes. Daubin V, Lerat E, Perrière G Genome Biol 2003 4(9):R57 (http://genomebiology.com/2003/4/9/R57) The two faces of Alba: the evolutionary connection between proteins participating in chromatin structure and RNA metabolism. Aravind L, Iyer LM, Anantharaman V Genome Biol 2003 4(10):R64 (http://genomebiology.com/2003/4/10/R64) Competing interests: Author is Publisher and Director of BioMed Central