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Assessing your journals with publisher-neutral data and statistics – JCR 2020 release

Assessing your journals with publisher-neutral data and statistics

Journal Citation Reports 2020 Release (2019 Data)

Marie McVeigh

July 1, 2020

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It can be difficult to know what matters to your audience, and differentiate your brand.

Gain insight into peer journals’ authors and papers.Understand the journal’s community: Who, what, and where?

Assess your journals’ content to identify strengths and gaps.JCR offers multiple layers of information and navigation to source data.

Make data-driven decisions about your open access strategy.JCR offers an x-ray view of the interplay between article citation and journal impact.

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What is Journal Citation Reports (JCR)?The JCR is an annual report that distills citation trend data from the Web of Science Core Collection to help you understand journal performance.

• View journal- and article-level metrics, including the Journal Impact Factor (JIF)

• Data represents a snapshot in time: the 2020 edition reflects citations from literature published in 2019.

• Citations are sourced from all indexes in the Web of Science Core Collection.

• All journals in JCR are sourced from two indexes:

Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)

Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)

Selectivity Quality control Transparency Multiple ways to define value

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Web of Science Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Work with credible metrics derived from accurate and complete data. Journals displaying evidence of influential self-citation and citation stacking are suppressed from Journal Citation Reports to support research integrity in scholarly publishing.

Easily uncover the relationship between article and journal citations to better understand a journal’s role in the network of scholarly communications. Access to article data helps you follow best practices for research evaluation.

Evaluate journals with a multidimensional view of a journal’s impact and influence. View citation metrics alongside descriptive open access statistics and contributor information that provide a holistic picture of each journal.

Make confident decisions with objective, unbiased journal statistics from publisher-neutral experts

Quickly find a list of the most influential journals in the sciences and social sciences. Each journal profiled in JCR has met the rigorous quality and impact standards documented in the Web of Science Core Collection editorial selection process.

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Journal information

JIF context – trend and rank

Citation impact profile

JIF calculation details

Fully transparent item data

Source data & Citation Network

Trends for all key metrics

OA articles and citations

Authorship community

Journal Profile pageRich, detailed information

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Journal Impact Factor reflects your journal’s recent citations and content

Ratio of citations from 2019 to papers published in 2017 and 2018 to papers published in 2017 and 2018

2019 Journal Impact Factor

20202016 20182017 2019

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Assess your journal’s performance in context

Quickly understand your journal’s rank and performance over time:

• See whether your journal’s JIF is growing or declining

• Determine how your journal’s JIF ranks it in comparison to other journals in its subject category or categories

• At-a-glance display of quartile rank

• Graph can be expanded to show all available years - back to 1997.

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• Quickly obtain a clear picture of your journal’s content profile

• Viewing median citation rates for articles versus reviews

• See the extent to which outlier papers may be driving your journal’s JIF

• Uncited content; unlinked citations

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Gain insight into what content types are driving your journal’s JIF

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• Understand the relative contribution of each article to your journal’s overall citation performance

• Export and match to internal data

• Conduct further analysis of your journal’s citable items in the Web of Science Core Collection to summarize performance by author, institution, country, and more

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Gain insight into which papers are driving your journal’s JIF

All citable items, down to zero JIF

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• JCR is a snapshot – but articles continue to evolve

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A dynamic relationship between article performance and journal performance

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• Conduct further analysis of citing articles in the Web of Science Core Collection to see the most active authors, institutions, countries, and more

• Article level detail can reveal specific topics that are depending on your titles, track citation paths, reveal anomalous patterns

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What is the source of your impact?Citing journals – and citing articles

Web of Science as a way to analyze and understand where “impact” comes from

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• Understand more about the network of relationships around your journal

• Time: how much is your backfile being used

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Citation impact is more than 2 years

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• Understand more about the network of relationships around your journal

• Where are your citations coming from?

• Partner, peer, competitor

• Your authors read these journals

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Citation impact is from other journals

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• Determine the relative contribution of each institution to your journal’s overall citation performance

• Are your authors’ institutions your subscribers? Who are you missing?

• Examine who is publishing in peer journals. Are they finding a different audience?

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Quickly understand how your journal’s community compares to peers journals

14K+ disambiguated institutions

100% of author names and affiliations

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• Obtain the transparency you need to make data driven decisions

• Understand how your open access content contributes to your journal’s citations

• Quickly identify the open access articles in your hybrid journals

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Make confident decisions about your open access strategyTransparent open access data in the JCR

Open Access data sourced from Our Research↗ (formerly ImpactStory).

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Research Integrity

✓ Assess journals with multiple indicators and visualizations that provide you with context for the numbers

✓ Quickly and easily distinguish the difference between article versus journal metrics

Follow best practices for research evaluation with multidimensional journal profiles

For more information, see ISI’s Profiles, not Metrics Report

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Citation: Garfield, E. (1975) “Preface and Introduction to Journal Citation Reports – Vol. 9 of the SCI, 1975.”

http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/papers/jcr1975introduction.pdf

"Like any other tool, the JCR cannot be used indiscriminately. It is a source of highly valuable information, but that information must be used within a total framework proper to the decision to be made, the hypothesis to be examined, and rarely in isolation without consideration of other factors, objective and subjective."

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