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Journal Citation Reports 2022: COVID-19 research continues to drive increased citation impact

Today we release the 2022 update to the annual Journal Citation Reports (JCR)™. This year’s release demonstrates the enormous impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on scholarly publishing. We also identify and define a new type of anomalous citation behavior: self-stacking. The annual JCR release enables the research community to evaluate the world’s high-quality academic […]

The road to Journal Citation Reports 2021: New content and a new metric

This is the first in a series of updates to provide information on the launch of the 2021 Journal Citation Reports release. You can read about Journal Citation Reports 2022 here. Nearly 50 years into its run as the world’s most authoritative source for transparent, publisher-neutral data and statistics, Journal Citation Reports (JCR)™ from Clarivate […]

Mapping the path to future changes in the Journal Citation Reports

In July 2022, I shared our plans to extend the Journal Impact Factor (JIF)™ to all journals in the Web of Science Core Collection™ from June 2023. This means that 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)™ […]