Journal Profiles and Journal 
  Metrics in the JCR
  What is New in 2021
   Marie McVeigh
   24 September 2021
  Overview
  • Journal Citation Reports and Web of Science
  • New in 2021
   – Expanded journal list
   – Journal Citation Indicator
   – Early Access
  • Content in Context – journal profiles
               JCR and Web of Science 
               • “A citation index is based on the principle                                                                                                                                                         • JCR provides a 
                        that there is some meaningful relationship                                                                                                                                                         summary, the journal 
                        between one paper and some other that it                                                                                                                                                           level, of the article 
                        cites or that cites it, and thus between the                                                                                                                                                       citation network in 
                        work of the two authors or two groups of                                                                                                                                                           Web of Science
                        authors who published the papers.”                                                                                                                                                           • The JCR begins with 
                                                                                                                                                                                                                           researchers 
                         –         Eugene Garfield (1975) Introduction to the first release of                                                                                                                             collaborating and 
                                   Journal Citation Reports                                                                                                                                                                communicating with 
                                                                                                                                                                                                                           one another through 
                         http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/papers/jcr1975introduction.pdf                                                                                                                                  their published works
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        Journal Evaluation
        Process
        Curating the sources
          28 
          selection criteria in total
          24
          quality criteria to select for 
          editorial rigor and publishing 
          best practice
          4
          impact criteria to select for the 
          most impactful journals 
                                                                   https://clarivate.com/webofsciencegroup/journal-evaluation-
                                                                   process-and-selection-criteria/
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