Journal Citation Reports2
Make better informed, more confident decisions with publisher-neutral journal intelligence.
Assess the world’s leading journals
Quickly understand the role of each journal in the evolving scholarly publishing landscape to make informed decisions about manuscript submission, collection development and portfolio management.
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The 2024 release of Journal Citation Reports includes:
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Essential for journal evaluations
Benchmark your journal’s performance against others in a discipline
Identify journals that are critical to your researchers’ and institution’s success
Discover and select the best-fit journals for your research
Promote your inclusion in JCR
For almost half a century publishers, institutions, funders and researchers have trusted the impartial data provided by Journal Citation Reports™ (JCR™) to identify the world’s leading journals.
Uncover key citation impact trends across 250+ disciplines to inform your publishing strategy. Explore a rich array of leading indicators, including the Journal Impact Factor™ (JIF™), descriptive data and compelling visualizations to quickly understand your journal’s role within – and influence upon – the global research community.
Use the Publishers’ toolkit below to promote your inclusion.
Research integrity
Clarivate is committed to supporting the integrity of the scholarly record. Each journal profiled in Journal Citation Reports has met the rigorous quality standards documented in the Web of Science Core Collection™ editorial selection process. In 2024, 544 titles have received a Journal Impact Factor for the first time.
Visit the Master Journal List to see what journals are included.
An Introduction to Journal Impact Factor for first-time publishers
Understand what you need to know now that you have a JIF.
How was your journal selected for Journal Citation Reports?
Each journal profiled in the Journal Citation Reports has met the rigorous quality standards documented in the Web of Science Core Collection editorial selection process.
If you have any questions about your journal’s coverage in Clarivate products, please contact editorial.relations@clarivate.com.
Publishers' toolkit
Promoting your inclusion in JCR
Promote your inclusion in Journal Citation Reports 2024. Download your 2024 badge and handy communications guide which provides suggestions for promoting your inclusion, example social media posts, and guidance on the correct use of the Journal Citation ReportsTM trademark, language and assets.
Promote your inclusion
You might consider promoting your inclusion with:
- A press release
- Social media
- Author newsletters
- Editorial board members and editor notifications
- Internal announcements to colleagues
Download the Journal Citation Reports 2024 Badge and Communications Guide
If your communications team has any inquiries, please contact newsroom@clarivate.com for assistance.
When announcing your Journal Impact Factor score, we strongly encourage you to provide additional contextual information so that your audience understands the full scope of the impact and influence of your journals. This Reference Guide will help you interpret the data included in Journal Citation Reports so that you can promote your journals responsibly.
Amplify your reach and promote the success of your journals
The Web of Science Author Connect team can help you reach active authors who have published the worlds’ leading journals, we can help you:
- Increase submissions for your titles
- Drive readership and usage of your publications
- Build awareness of your brand
FAQs
Each journal profiled in the Journal Citation Reports has met the rigorous quality standards documented in the Web of Science Core Collection editorial selection process.
A key difference between the Web of Science and Journal Citation Reports is that the Web of Science is continually updated, while the JCR data represent a snapshot from a specific time, namely, the date when the data were extracted for analysis. This difference reflects the essential nature of each product.
The Web of Science is an evolving record of the dynamic world of scholarly communication with new source content continually added, including citations. JCR, on the other hand, is an annual report on the citation impact of a defined set of journals at a given moment in time.
Therefore, attempts to use the Web of Science data to replicate JCR metrics will lead to results that will vary from those reported in JCR.
The Journal Impact Factor is a single journal-level measurement that should not be considered in isolation. We continue to advise that the JIF is a useful metric, if used responsibly as a measure of journal’s citation performance and wider journal intelligence, which takes into account journal size. We also continue to advise against misuse of the JIF as a measure of anything other than the scholarly impact of a journal.
The JIF– a journal-level metric– is not a measure of a specific paper or any kind of proxy or substitute metric that confers standing on an individual or institution that may have published papers in a given journal. The Journal Impact Factor should not be used irresponsibly to evaluate individual articles and researchers during research assessment.
We urge the use of proper data analysis through a graphical display with multiple, complementary dimensions. Setting the JIF in a wider content allows for broader understanding. For more information, please see our Global Research Report: Profiles not metrics.
Over the past few years, we have implemented a series of policy changes for the Journal Citation Reports (JCR)™ aimed at aligning coverage between the Web of Science Core Collection™ and the JCR, providing more transparency of the data underlying JCR metrics, and encouraging a more inclusive, more holistic way of comparing journals.
In making these changes, we have evolved the JIF from an indicator of scholarly impact (the numerical value of the JIF) in the sciences and social sciences to an indicator of both scholarly impact and trustworthiness (having a JIF – regardless of the number) across all disciplines at the journal level.
For more detail, please visit this page.
