Lab on a Chip Blog

In order to celebrate our new Impact Factor of 5.75, the following highly cited articles are free to access until 30^th September 2014. Click on the links to download!

Commercialization of microfluidic point-of-care diagnostic devices
Curtis D. Chin, Vincent Linder and Samuel K. Sia
Lab Chip, 2012,12, 2118-2134
DOI: 10.1039/C2LC21204H, Critical Review
From themed collection Focus on USA

Microengineered physiological biomimicry: Organs-on-Chips
Dongeun Huh, Yu-suke Torisawa, Geraldine A. Hamilton, Hyun Jung Kim and Donald E. Ingber
Lab Chip, 2012,12, 2156-2164
DOI: 10.1039/C2LC40089H, Frontier

Droplet microfluidics for high-throughput biological assays
Mira T. Guo, Assaf Rotem, John A. Heyman and David A. Weitz
Lab Chip, 2012,12, 2146-2155
DOI: 10.1039/C2LC21147E, Critical Review

Human gut-on-a-chip inhabited by microbial flora that experiences intestinal peristalsis-like motions and flow
Hyun Jung Kim, Dongeun Huh, Geraldine Hamilton and Donald E. Ingber
Lab Chip, 2012,12, 2165-2174
DOI: 10.1039/C2LC40074J, Paper

Ensembles of engineered cardiac tissues for physiological and pharmacological study: Heart on a chip
Anna Grosberg, Patrick W. Alford, Megan L. McCain and Kevin Kit Parker
Lab Chip, 2011,11, 4165-4173
DOI: 10.1039/C1LC20557A, Paper

DOI: 10.1039/C0LC00633E, Paper

Deformability-based cell classification and enrichment using inertial microfluidics
Soojung Claire Hur, Nicole K. Henderson-MacLennan, Edward R. B. McCabe and Dino Di Carlo
Lab Chip, 2011,11, 912-920
DOI: 10.1039/C0LC00595A, Paper

Microfluidic fabrication of microengineered hydrogels and their application in tissue engineering
Bong Geun Chung, Kwang-Ho Lee, Ali Khademhosseini and Sang-Hoon Lee
Lab Chip, 2012,12, 45-59
DOI: 10.1039/C1LC20859D, Critical Review

Automated cellular sample preparation using a Centrifuge-on-a-Chip
Albert J. Mach, Jae Hyun Kim, Armin Arshi, Soojung Claire Hur and Dino Di Carlo
Lab Chip, 2011,11, 2827-2834
DOI: 10.1039/C1LC20330D, Paper

Tumour cell identification by means of Raman spectroscopy in combination with optical traps and microfluidic environments
Sebastian Dochow, Christoph Krafft, Ute Neugebauer, Thomas Bocklitz, Thomas Henkel, Günter Mayer, Jens Albert and Jürgen Popp
Lab Chip, 2011,11, 1484-1490
DOI: 10.1039/C0LC00612B, Paper

*Access is free through a registered RSC account – click here to register

We are delighted to announce that our 2013 Impact Factor* has risen to 5.748!

Lab on  a Chip provides a unique forum for the publication of significant and original work related to miniaturisation (on or off chips) at the micro- and nano- scale across a variety of disciplines. We would like to thank all of our Board members, authors, readers and reviewers for their continued support.

Contribute to our next Impact Factor –  submit your latest piece of high impact work with us here.

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*The Impact Factor provides an indication of the average number of citations per paper. Produced annually, Impact Factors are calculated by dividing the number of citations in a year by the number of citeable articles published in the preceding two years. Data based on 2013 Journal Citation Reports^®, (Thomson Reuters, 2014).

To celebrate last month’s release of the 2011 Impact Factors, we are making some of our best content free to access.

The collection brings together the 20 top cited  Lab on a Chip papers from 2009 and 2010.

View the collection here.

All the articles are free to access for a limited time, following a simple registration for individual users.

Lab on a Chip is delighted to announce a 2010 Impact Factor of 6.26, demonstrating the community support for Lab on a Chip as their journal of choice  for miniaturisation at the micro and nanoscale, for both fundamental and applications-based research.

Our thanks to all of our Editorial and Advisory Board members, authors and referees.

View the RSC Publishing blog for important news on the overall RSC Impact Factor performance.