(22 May 2024) This year’s JCR will introduce unified rankings across subject categories. This approach is designed to simplify the evaluation of journal performance by providing a more comprehensive view of each journal’s standing within its respective subject area. Each subject category ranking will include journals assigned to that category regardless of edition, including the…
(16 Feb 2024) Two notable changes will be implemented in the JIF category rankings: 1) edition-specific category JIF rankings to unified rankings for each of our 229 science and social science categories, and 2) JIF rankings for the arts and humanities categories will not be introduced as planned. Dr. Nandita Quaderi, Senior Vice President & Editor…
(28 Jun 2023) Today marks the 2023 release of the annual Journal Citation Reports™ (JCR™). You will notice that this year, it looks a little different – so this blog will walk you through what’s new and what future changes you can expect to see as we seek to continuously improve these reports. We are…
(7 Mar 2023) This year, journals from the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI)™ and the multidisciplinary Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)™ in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR)™ will receive a JIF for the first time. As a result of this development, a further 9,000 journals in the JCR will receive a JIF and benefit…
(30 Dec 2022) Goodbye to 2022 and hello to 2023; let’s look at what stories at LibraryLearningSpace.com (LLS) attracted our readers the most in 2022. The statistics show that the reader’s interest lies in specific topics that make more sense by looking at a higher level. But feel free to go directly to the…
(26 Jul 2022) Clarivate Plc (NYSE:CLVT), a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation, today announced that in the 2023 release of the Journal Citation Reports™, all Web of Science Core Collection™ journals will receive a Journal Impact Factor (JIF)™. This means expanding the JIF from Science Citation Index Expanded…
(28 Jun 2022) Clarivate Plc (NYSE:CLVT), a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation, today released the 2022 update to its annual Journal Citation Reports (JCR). The annual JCR release enables the research community to evaluate the world’s high-quality academic journals using a range of indicators, descriptive data…
(21 Jun 2022) This year’s data summarizes Web of Science™ citations from 2021, including 35,000 publications (journals, books and conference proceedings), 2.7 million citable items and 145 million cited references indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection™. Two novel events drove the 2020 data: the inclusion of Early Access content in the JCR for…
(30 Jun 2021) Clarivate Plc (NYSE:CLVT), a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation, today released the 2021 update to its annual Journal Citation Reports (JCR)™. The annual JCR release enables the research community to evaluate the world’s high-quality academic journals using a range of indicators, descriptive data and visualizations. The…
(20 May 2021) The recent announcement made by Clarivate says, “By normalizing for different fields of research and their widely varying rates of publication and citation, the Journal Citation Indicator provides a single journal-level metric that can be easily interpreted and compared across disciplines. The Journal Citation Indicator will be calculated for all journals in…