The Journal of Human Genetics has been published by the Nature Publishing Group

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 since January 2009, on behalf of the Japan Society of Human Genetics. Prior to this, it had been called the Japanese Journal of Human Genetics and was independently published by the JSHG, before Springer Verlag took over publishing in 1998. While under Springer the journal changed from a bimonthly to a monthly periodical. The Journal of Human Genetics focuses on medical genetics and human genome analysis. It had a 2008 impact factor

Impact factor

The impact factor, often abbreviated IF, is a measure reflecting the average number of citations to articles published in science and social science journals. It is frequently used as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal within its field, with journals with higher impact factors deemed...

of 2.431.