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Find Articles: Indexes and Databases:
Journal Citation Reports
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- Description
- Journal Citation Reports is a comprehensive and unique resource that allows you to evaluate
and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals
from
more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries. It is the only source of citation data on
journals,
and includes virtually all areas of science, technology, and social sciences. Journal
Citation
Reports can show you the:
- Most frequently cited journals in a field
- Highest impact journals in a field
- Largest journals in a field
Citation and article counts are important indicators of how frequently current researchers are
using
individual journals. By tabulating and aggregating citation and article counts, JCR offers a
unique
perspective for journal evaluation and comparison. (Thomson)
- Help
- Available from the JCR homepage as "Information for New Users." From all other pages, help
is available from top left corner.
- For help using these indexes see: How do I find an article on my
topic?
- Dates covered
- 1999-.
- Updating frequency
- Annually.
- Sources
- The Science Edition contains data from almost 6000 journals in the areas of science and technology.
The Social Sciences Edition contains data from roughly 1700 social sciences journals.
- Type of coverage
- Data is presented for journal titles and subject areas. Data covers number of articles published,
impact factors for individual journals, and number of citations to each journal for each year
covered.
- Print Counterpart or related resources
- Science Citation Index Journal Citation Reports and
Social Sciences Citation Index Journal Citation Reports.
See IRIS for various formats and
years.
- Producer/content provider
- Thomson Scientific
- Vendor/electronic presentation provider
- Thomson Scientific/ ISI Web of Knowledge
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