The Journal Citation Reports(JCR) contains a fully transparent dataset for the Journal Impact Factor calculation, demonstrating the article and citation components of a journal’s impact.
JCR contains citation-based performance metrics at the article and the journal level; it shows the network of references that represent the journal’s voice in the global scholarly dialogue; it highlights the institutional and international players who are part of the journal’s community.
The many data points and metrics in the Journal Citation Reports give a nuanced understanding of journal impact, helping you tell your journal’s story. It contains all the data required to understand the components that index the value and impact of each journal.
How JCR Helps?
Publishers, librarians, researchers and others depend on the JCR to track specific titles, inform the maintenance of journal collections, and identify the best-fit journals in which to publish.
Journal Citation Reports(JCR) is the meaningful connections of citations created by the research community through the delivery of a rich array of publisher-independent data, metrics and analysis of the world’s most impactful journals included in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), part of the Web of Science Core Collection.
Grounded in the meticulous selection and curation of top journals, and subject to constant editorial vigilance and quality control covering the integrity of the data and the development of new measures, the JCR remains an essential resource.
The structured data are curated by a global team of experts who continuously evaluate and select the collections of journals, books and conference proceedings covered in the Web of Science Core Collection to ensure accuracy in evaluating journal impact.
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2019 Journal Citation Reports
On June 20, the Web of Science Group, a Clarivate Analytics company, released the 2019 Journal Citation Reports (JCR).
Highlights
- The 2019 JCR Covers 11,877 journals, including 283 titles new to the JCR – 108 of them fully open access.
- Research and scholarship representing 81 countries.
- Among covered journals, 64% demonstrate an increase in Journal Impact Factor (JIF)
- In 90% of the 236 research categories, an increase in the aggregate JIF
- After a thorough investigation of anomalous citation behaviour, 17 journals were suppressed from the 2019 JCR to ensure the integrity of the data.
Journals in the sciences and social sciences that meet the additional impact criteria enter the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) or Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI). These journals are then eligible for inclusion in the Journal Citation Reports and will receive a Journal Impact Factor
The JCR expert insights enable you to explore the key drivers of a journal’s value, making better use of the wide body of data and metrics available in the Journal Citation Reports, including the Journal Impact Factor (JIF).
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