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Journal Citation Reports on the Web

Journal Citation Reports on the Web. Introduction. JCR distills citation trend data for 7,600+ journals from more than 25 million cited references indexed by ISI every year Science Edition and Social Science Edition released annually Science Edition covers 5,928 journals in 171 subjects

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Journal Citation Reports on the Web

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  1. Journal Citation Reports on the Web

  2. Introduction • JCR distills citation trend data for 7,600+ journals from more than 25 million cited references indexed by ISI every year • Science Edition and Social Science Edition released annually • Science Edition covers 5,928 journals in 171 subjects • Social Science Edition covers 1,716 journals in 55 subjects

  3. Uses of the JCR What do librarians, researchers, and Publishers do with the JCR? • Discover highest-impact journals • Develop and manage journal collections • Compare a custom selection of journals • Find related journals • Identify review journals • View citation information for subject categories

  4. “Using the JCR Wisely” • Indicates factors that affect JCR data • Elucidates conditions that may affect journals’ ranking and impact factor

  5. New features in v.4.0 • Related journals • Find journals that are related to one another based on citation behavior • Find journals that are related to specific subject categories • Subject category level data • Impact Factor, Immediacy Index, Half-Life data at the category level • Use this info to put the journal IF in context

  6. JCR Home Page Science and Social Science editions must be searched separately Before starting, click on Information for New Users and read “Using the JCR Wisely.”

  7. Journal Search Screen You can search by Full Journal Title, Journal Abbreviation, Title Word, or ISSN. Select Title Word from the menu.

  8. Journal Summary List Click on title link to display full record.

  9. Full Record Page Explanatory data is found below View category data here

  10. Impact Factor • ISI calculates the impact factor by: dividing the number of citations made in 2004 to items published in the previous two years by the total number of articles & reviews published in the previous two years

  11. Immediacy Index Calculated by dividing the number of citations to articles published in a year (2004) by the total number of articles published in that year (2004). • Tells you how often articles published in a journal are cited during their year of publication • This can be an indication of how “hot” a journal is

  12. Cited Half Life • Median age of the articles published in this journal that were cited in 2004 Half of the citations received in 2004 were to articles published in 1996/1997 or later

  13. Citing Half Life • Median age of articles cited by the selected journal in its article references Indicates that over half of the articles cited by the selected journal were published between 1995 and 2005.

  14. Source Data Review articles are often more highly cited than original research articles: consider a journal’s source data by document type. • Tallies the number of original research and review articles published in the current year (2005) • Also tallies the number of references published by the selected journal in the current year • Other Items = document types not included in the number of citable items published by this journal (e.g. letters, news items, editorials, etc.)

  15. More data from the Full Record

  16. Cited Journal List References to all older articles. Publication year of cited article. A list of journals which have cited Atmosphere-Ocean within 2004

  17. Citing Journal List The publication year of the articles being cited A list of journals that Atmosphere-Ocean has cited within 2004.

  18. Related Journals These journals have a subject relationship to the journal Atmosphere-Ocean based on citations given or received.

  19. Relatedness: Journal level • Considers bi-directional citation pairs Journal i cites Journal j AND Journal j cites Journal I • The specific relatedness calculation we are using was developed by Garfield and Pudovkin (2002). “Algorithmic procedure for finding semantically related journals.” JASIST 53: 1113-1119.

  20. Ri>j = Hi>j * 106 (Papj * Refi) Rj>i= Hj>i * 106 (Papi * Refj) Related Journals • The Relatedness between journals is characterized by two calculations

  21. What does “relatedness” mean? • The relatedness calculation is like a measure of the “citation density” between two journals. • Hi>j The numerator considers the number of citations going from journal i to journal j • The denominator includes two factors that normalize for the size of the journals: Papj : the number of papers in the cited journal Refi : the total number of references given by journal i to any journal

  22. Impact Factor Trend Graph • Indicates Impact Factor over a period of five years • Entry point into JCR from Web of Science

  23. Examine Subject Categories

  24. View Journal data View journal-level data for publications in this subject category

  25. Sort journals in the category Compare journals based on Impact Factor or other data elements You may check here for journal name changes occurring within the past two years. This may affect a journal’s Impact Factor.

  26. View Category Data for context Use Control-click to select multiple categories

  27. Aggregate data Calculations are similar to those for journals, but are created from an entire category’s citation data

  28. Category level data • Median Impact Factor – the Impact Factor mid-point for journals in the category. 50% of journals rank above, 50% rank below. • Aggregate Impact Factor • Citation rate of the “average” article in a subject category • Use as benchmarking tool to compare a journal to its overall subject category.

  29. Category Data More category data Calculations for Aggregate data

  30. Cited Category Table A list of journals which cited titles within the Health Policy and Services category

  31. Citing Category Table A list of titles that received citations from journals in this subject category

  32. Related journals – subject category These journals have a subject relationship to the Health Policy & Services subject category by citations either given or received

  33. Marking Journals Click the Marked List button to access output options. Mark individual journals or all in the list for later output.

  34. Output from Marked List Format the list for printing, or save the list as a text file.

  35. Output options Print your list (using your browser’s Print function) Or save as a text file which can be imported into a spreadsheet

  36. Contacting Thomson Scientific • Contact the Technical Help Desk • email: ts.support.americas@thomson.com / ts.support.emea@thomson.com • Visit us on the web at: http://scientific.thomson.com/support

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