Nature journal subscription sale (from $10-50)

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If you are wondering about the odd price structure, compare the price and the 2010 impact factor (from Wikipedia):

Nature $36, impact factor 36.1

Nature Biotechnology $31, impact factor 31.1

Nature Cell Biology $19, impact factor 19.4

Nature Chemical Biology $15, impact factor 15.8

Nature Chemistry $17, impact factor 17.9

and the list goes on! at least they round down...

It's amazing how big IF has become over the years. I don't recall a single discussion in grad school (in the late 90's) where we ever sat down and discussed the IF of journals we wanted to publish in.

Unfortunately I am not sure all the current altmetrics efforts quite address the problem either.

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