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June 14, 2017 by Gary Price

Clarivate Analytics Releases 2017 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

June 14, 2017 by Gary Price

From Clarivate Analytics:

Clarivate Analytics today released the 2017 Journal Citation Reports (JCR), an annual update of the world’s most influential and comprehensive resource for information on highly cited, peer-reviewed publications and the source of Journal Impact Factor (JIF) scores.
The analysis comprises citation data, impact and influence metrics, and millions of cited and citing journal data points from the Web of Science, the industry’s leading citation index in the sciences, social sciences and arts and humanities.
[Clarivate Analytics acquired the Intellectual Property & Science Division of Thomson Reuters during 2016.]
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Consider climate change: Despite the thousands of papers published on climate change, controversy still lingers. To help add clarity to what the research data is revealing, the JCR identifies the top five research fields in climate change as Environmental Sciences, Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences, Geosciences-Multidisciplinary, Ecology and Geography-Physical.
Furthermore, based on the Average Journal Impact Factor Percentile in the JCR, the top 10 journals across these five fields are:

Journal

Publisher

Field

Average JIF Percentile*

1. Nature Geoscience

Nature Publishing Group

Geosciences-Multidisciplinary

99.734

2. Nature Climate Change

Nature Publishing Group

Environmental Sciences; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences

99.427

3. Energy & Environmental Science

Royal Society of Chemistry

Environmental Sciences

99.340

4. Trends in Ecology & Evolution

Elsevier

Ecology

99.042

5. Land Degradation & Development

Wiley

Environmental Sciences

98.719

6. Earth-Science Reviews

Elsevier

Geosciences-Multidisciplinary

98.670

7. Environmental Health Perspectives

US Department of Health Education & Welfare Public Health Service

Environmental Sciences

98.284

8. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

American Meteorological Society

Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences

98.235

9. Gondwana Research

Elsevier

Geosciences, Multidisciplinary

98.138

10. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Elsevier

Geography, Physical

98.102

*Average JIF Percentile allows for comparison of journals across different categories by providing a normalized score based on the rank of the journal.

 The 2017 JCR release, which represents 2016 citation data for literature within the sciences and social sciences, features 11,459 journal listings in 236 disciplines with 81 countries represented. A total of 132 journals received their first JIF in this report; 66% of journals saw a year-over-year increase in their JIF and 33% saw a decrease. These high-impact journals are at the heart of the Web of Science, the most comprehensive network of citations of over 33,000 journals.

Infographic shares more data points related to this year's Clarivate Analytics Journal Citation Reports (PRNewsfoto/Clarivate Analytics)
Source: PRNewsfoto/Clarivate Analytics

The Journal Impact Factor is the ratio of last year’s citations to articles published in that journal in the two previous years. To ensure the JIF remains transparent to the research community, later this year the Web of Science will provide direct links to the source documents comprising the JIF denominator. In addition, with next year’s JCR release, direct links will also extend to the JIF numerator.
As Clarivate Analytics continues to accelerate its investment in innovation, reinforced by the acquisition of Publons earlier this month, this release of the JCR also includes new enhancements such as Percent Citable Items and new filters making analysis of the JCR easier. Percent Citable Items shows the percentage of a journal’s content that is considered “citable” for the JIF calculation.

Read the Complete JCR 2017 Launch Announcement
Download Hi-Res Version of Infographic

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About Gary Price

Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.

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