Reference:JOURNAL CITATION REPORTS

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JOURNAL CITATION REPORTS AND IMPACT FACTORS

IMPACT FACTORS

The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) analyzes journal citation patterns to determine "Impact Factors" and "Half-Life" values for each journal. The impact factor is used to measure the importance of individual journals relative to other titles in their field. The annual Journal Citation Reports for Sciences and Social Sciences journals compile these data into ratings and ranked lists of journals.

JOURNAL CITATION REPORTS

SDSU does not subscribe to these reports. The UCSD Libraries have electronic access to the Journal Citation Reports and subscriptions to the annual print/microfiche reports.

Journal Citation Reports on microfiche [microform]:

  • JCR, Science edition are held at the UCSD Biomedical Library in their reserve section. (BML Reserves). Call number: ZW1 S411J 1998- (or ZW1 S411J 2003 for the most recent)
  • SSCI JCR [microform] (Social sciences citation index journal citation reports) are at UCSD in the SSH Library, Reference Micro. Call number: XRX 41 1995- (1995- ).

For a list of journals examined by JCR, see http://www.in-cites.com/journal-list/index.html

OTHER RESOURCES FOR IMPACT FACTORS

SciBytes http://sciencewatch.com/dr/sci/ occasionally produces top ten lists with impact factors in various disciplines.

Many journals publish their impact factors on their websites. This is true for:

Try a Google search on the name of the journal plus "impact factor"

A free resource, SCImago Journal & Country Rank calculates impact factors and other bibliometric statistics for a much large number of journals. The underlying data is from Elsevier's Scopus database.

Educational Rankings (LB 2331.63.E38 Ref Desk)does have many lists of impact factors (by discipline), although not always current.

See also Acceptance Rates for Journals and Journal Ranking

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