Announcing an increased impact factor of 1.908!

Development, Growth & Differentiation

Official Journal of the Japanese Society of Developmental Biologists

Edited by:
Harukazu Nakamura

ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2006: 121/156 (Cell Biology); 28/34 (Developmental Biology)
Impact Factor: 1.908

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Development, Growth & Differentiation is a multidisciplinary journal dealing with developmental phenomena in animals, plants and microorganisms. Molecular, biophysical, biochemical and morphological analyses on growth, morphogenesis, genetics, differentiation and cellular processes of delevelopment will be considered.

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TopNews and Announcements

Visit us at the 41^st Annual Meeting for the Japanese Society of Developmental Biologists May 2008 in  Tokushima, Japan.

50th Anniversary in 2008
Development Growth & Differentiation is celebrating its 50th year in publication this year!

To commemorate this outstanding achievement, a special memorial issue will be released, as well as a FREE Virtual Special Issue containing one top cited paper from every year.  Keep a lookout for these upcoming special issues online. 

Free Access to Digitised Back Files Now Available!
All issues of Development Growth and Differentiation, published from 1950 (Volume 1) to 2005 (Volume 47), are now fully digitised and FREELY AVAILABLE to view online.

Digitisation of the backfiles has been supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Special Purposes provided by Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology as part of their Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research.

Announcing the winners of the 2007 DGD Awards
The editorial board and The Japanese Society of Developmental Biologists would like to announce the 2007 winners for 'Most Highly Cited Paper in 2004' and 'Most Downloaded Paper in 2006 Volume'.

Tetsuya Kojima has been selected for the Most Highly Cited Paper Award, for his paper "The mechanism of Drosophila leg development along the proximodistal axis" Vol. 46, No. 2. 

Hossein Baharvand, Hanieh Jafary, Mohammad Massumi and Saeid Kazemi Ashtiani have been selected for the Most Downloaded Paper Award, for their paper "Generation of insulin-secreting cells from human embryonic stem cells" Vol. 48, No. 5.

Winners will receive a certificate and prize of a Yen 20,000 book voucher for Wiley-Blackwell books. Congratulations to all!

Special Issue: Regeneration and Remodeling (Vol 49 Issue 2)
Click here to view the abstracts from this special issue.

Free Online Access in the Developing World
Access to this journal is available free online within institutions in the developing world through the AGORA Initiative with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and the OARE Initiative (Online Access to Research in the Environment) with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

TopHighlights

Article highlights from Development, Growth and Differentiation 

·         Hox genes in time and space during vertebrate body formation
Tadahiro Iimura and Olivier Pourquié [highly downloaded]

·         Liver development and regeneration: From laboratory study to clinical therapy
Shoji Hata, Misako Namae and Hiroshi Nishina [highly downloaded]

·         Initiation of limb regeneration: The critical steps for regenerative capacity
Hitoshi Yokoyam [highly downloaded]

·         Molecular analysis of cardiomyocytes derived from human embryonic stem cells
Hanna Segev, Dorit Kenyagin-Karsenti, Bettina Fishman, Sharon Gerecht-Nir, Anna Ziskind,
Michal Amit, Raymond Coleman and Joseph Itskovitz-Eldor  [highly cited]

·         Stem-cell-based approaches for regenerative medicine 
Shoen Kume  [highly cited]

·         Single cell electroporation method for axon tracing in cultured slices
Naofumi Uesaka, Maki Nishiwaki and Nubuhiko Yamamoto  [highly cited]