id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_bugz5cb5sfhjfo2ttub3c52lqq Mikko Packalen Neophilia ranking of scientific journals 2016 21 .pdf application/pdf 9291 506 59 reward journals for publishing innovative work that builds on new ideas. an alternative ranking based on the proclivity of journals to publish papers that build in a new area is unlikely to generate many cites unless multiple journals publish papers articles published by a given journal build on new ideas. neophilia index for a journal based on articles published in it during 1980-2013. assigning a high neophilia ranking to a journal that merely prefers to publish articles Based on this index, we determine the neophilia ranking of each journal in a journal mention a relatively new idea 50% more often than the average article published To compare our neophilia index against citation based journal rankings, we make use of in the General and Internal Medicine journal set (Table 1), neophilia rankings for all to publish articles that try out new ideas (that is, for 8 journals in Table 1 the neophilia ./cache/work_bugz5cb5sfhjfo2ttub3c52lqq.pdf ./txt/work_bugz5cb5sfhjfo2ttub3c52lqq.txt