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Journal Citation Reports

Assess the world’s leading journals

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Make confident decisions with transparent, publisher-neutral data and statistics

Quickly understand a journal’s role in the evolving scholarly publishing landscape to inform manuscript submission, collection development, and portfolio management decisions.

Evaluate journals with a multidimensional view of a journal’s impact and influence. View citation metrics, including the Journal Impact Factor™ and Journal Citation Indicator, alongside descriptive open access statistics and contributor information.​

Enhance your journal evaluations

Enhance your journal evaluations

  1. Benchmark your journal’s performance against others in a discipline
    Explore a rich array of citation metrics and descriptive data to make confident portfolio decisions and gain a deep understanding of a journal’s influence on the global research community.
  2. Identify journals that are critical to your researchers’ and institution’s success
    Ensure your library collections support rigorous research and teaching and make data-driven decisions about your open access strategy.
  3. Discover and select the best-fit journals for your research
    Find the right journals to publish in to amplify the reach, recognition, and influence of your work.

Trust your source of journal intelligence

Objectivity

  • Rely on unbiased journal statistics produced by publisher-neutral experts.

  • Consult detailed journal profiles with publication and citation data from the world’s original citation index—Web of Science Core Collection.

Selectivity

  • Browse journals that have met the rigorous quality standards in the Web of Science Core Collection editorial selection process.

  • Quickly locate the most influential journals in your field.

  • Save time assessing journals for submission or subscription.

Quality control and transparency

  • Remove journals that demonstrate predatory behavior from your process.

  • Explore a complete view of citation performance using a dataset built by cover-to-cover indexing and consistent metadata capture.

  • Drill down to granular, linked data to thoroughly understand a journal’s performance and relationships to other publications.

The 2022 release of Journal Citation Reports includes:

21430

total journals

12828

science journals

6691

social sciences journals

3092

arts & humanities journals

5300

gold open access journals

114

countries

254

research categories

Using the Journal Impact Factor wisely

Web of Science does not depend on the Journal Impact Factor alone in assessing the usefulness of a journal, and neither should anyone else. The Journal Impact Factor should not be used without careful attention to the many phenomena that influence citation rates – for example the average number of references cited in the average article. The Journal Impact Factor should be used with informed peer review. In the case of academic evaluation for tenure, it is sometimes inappropriate to use the impact of the source journal to estimate the expected frequency of a recently published article. Again, the Journal Impact Factor should be used with informed peer review. Citation frequencies for individual articles are quite varied.  Journal Citation Reports now includes more article-level data to provide a clearer understanding of the reciprocal relationship between the article and the journal. This level of transparency allows you to not only see the data, but also see through the data to a more nuanced consideration of journal value.

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Publisher Toolkit
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JCR 2022 reference guide
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