The 2008 citation data released by Thomson Reuters in the Science Edition of the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) reveal that Applied Physics Letters (APL) and Journal of Applied Physics (JAP) once again ranked as the first and second most highly cited of the 95 journals tracked in the applied physics category.

Highlights of the JCR data include:

Applied Physics Letters		Journal of Applied Physics
	#1 in total citations with 179,925 Impact Factor: 3.726 Immediacy Index: 0.688		#2 in total citations with 113,773 Impact Factor: 2.201 Immediacy Index: 0.627
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