Research successes
June 2009
Accolade for Scientific Journal
The Institute for Scientific Information has released its analysis of the 2008 performance of scientific journals, which is expressed through their impact factors. The journal Reactive & Functional Polymers, whose Editor-in-Chief is Prof. Nicola Tirelli, has sharply improved its performance for the second successive year.
Prof. Tirelli took the editor role at the end of 2006. Since this time, the journal has improved its standing in the scientific community with an increase of impact from 1.56 in 2006 to 2.03 in 2008.
It is currently listed in the 18th position (out of 73) in the field of polymer science and in the 19th (out of 116) in that of chemical engineering