{"id":29217,"date":"2020-07-02T21:50:25","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T15:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.enago.com\/academy\/?p=29217"},"modified":"2020-07-31T19:06:13","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T13:06:13","slug":"journal-citation-reports-clarivate-analytics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enago.com\/academy\/journal-citation-reports-clarivate-analytics\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 Journal Citation Reports Focuses on Control of Self-citation &amp; Citation Stacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Selecting target journals is an important aspect of research publishing. In fact, it is the very first step in the process. There are several ways of identifying target journals. <a href=\"https:\/\/trinka.ai\/features\/journal-finder\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"136\" title=\"Journal Finder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Journal finder<\/a> tools like DOAJ, OAJF, Elsevier Journal Finder tool, Springer Journal Suggester etc., are helpful in selecting journals. Apart from these, another important aspect that researchers consider while choosing journals is citations. They often go for journals that have higher citations. This is where the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.enago.com\/academy\/clarivate-analytics-releases-2019-journal-citation-reports\/\">Journal Citation Reports released by Clarivate Analytics<\/a>, annually, come into play. Recently the Journal Citation Reports 2020 have been released. Here are a few key highlights of this year\u2019s report.<\/p>\n<div id=\"om-e3yged1krascscrlvupr-holder\"><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.opmnstr.com\/app\/js\/api.min.js\" data-campaign=\"e3yged1krascscrlvupr\" data-user=\"41855\" async><\/script>\t<\/p>\n<h2>Key Highlights of Journal Citation Reports 2020<\/h2>\n<p>Following are the key highlights of the Journal Citation Reports of this year:<\/p>\n<h3>Journals Selected for Inclusion<\/h3>\n<p>Firstly, more than 12,000 journals from 83 countries\u00a0across five continents\u00a0and\u00a0236\u00a0research categories\u00a0in the sciences and social sciences <a href=\"https:\/\/clarivate.com\/webofsciencegroup\/article\/the-2020-journal-citation-reports-helping-you-make-better-informed-decisions-with-confidence\/\" class=\"broken_link\">have been added in this year\u2019s list<\/a>.\u00a0This year\u2019s data has 9,370 Science journals and 3486 Social Science journals. Within these, about 1,658\u00a0journals fall under gold open access category.\u00a0These journals have been evaluated through 28 journal evaluation criteria. 351 new journals\u00a0have been added\u00a0to the\u00a0JCR\u00a0this year, out of which 178 are fully open access.<\/p>\n<h3>New Descriptive Data on Open Access Models<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchinformation.info\/news\/2020-journal-citation-reports-now-available\">New data displayed in the report<\/a> show each journal&#8217;s articles by access model. This will provide the research community with transparent, publisher-neutral information about the relative contribution of articles published free to read and re-use under Creative Commons licenses (&#8216;gold open access&#8217;) to a journal&#8217;s overall volume of content and citations.\u00a0For the\u00a07,487\u00a0hybrid journals in the\u00a0JCR, readers\u00a0are\u00a0now quickly and easily\u00a0able to identify:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The number of papers published via the traditional subscription model, and<\/li>\n<li>The papers published via Creative Commons licenses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Objectivity\u00a0in Journal Selection<\/h3>\n<p>The JCR is entitled to monitor and exclude journals that demonstrate anomalous citation\u00a0behavior\u00a0including where there is evidence of excessive journal self-citation and citation stacking.\u00a0With this objective, this year, Clarivate has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/in\/news-releases\/clarivate-releases-web-of-science-journal-citation-reports-to-identify-the-world-s-leading-journals-824962568.html\">suppressed\u00a033 journals\u00a0from to support the integrity of the reports<\/a>, representing 0.27 per cent of the journals listed.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020,\u00a0the\u00a0methodology as well as the parameters to monitor\u00a0the effect of journal\u00a0self-citation on JCR metrics\u00a0have been updated\u00a0to better account for discipline norms.\u00a0These new parameters include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Journal Impact Factor (JIF),<\/li>\n<li>Average JIF Percentile,<\/li>\n<li>Open access papers and citations<\/li>\n<li>Contribution by author region and affiliation<\/li>\n<li>Eigenfactor score<\/li>\n<li>Cited and half-citing life<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition,\u00a0an\u00a0Editorial Expression of Concern has been issued for 15 journals. Few of these 15 journals have\u00a0one\u00a0or more\u00a0published items\u00a0with a considerably\u00a0high-value contribution to the JIF numerator. While few have shown a pattern of journal citations disproportionately concentrated into the JIF numerator.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/clarivate.com\/webofsciencegroup\/web-of-science-journal-citation-reports-2020-infographic\/\" class=\"broken_link\">Clarivate\u202fwill continue reviewing similar content<\/a> with the goal of developing additional screening for distortions of the Journal Impact Factor.<\/p>\n<h2>Clarivate\u2019s Objective Behind the Journal Citation Reports<\/h2>\n<p>According to Keith Collier, Senior Vice President of Product, Science Group at Clarivate,\u00a0publishers, institutions, funders and researchers\u00a0have relied\u00a0on unbiased data in the Web of Science Journal Citation Reports since last 40 years. They have used this report to identify and evaluate the world&#8217;s leading sciences and social sciences journals. The carefully selected and structured data within the JCR not only allows the research community to better understand\u00a0citation impact\u00a0trends, but also to make confident decisions about their publication strategies.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding this year&#8217;s report, he says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;In 2020, we have added new descriptive data and updated self-citation parameters to further support the research community with trusted insights that can inform decisions and accelerate the pace of innovation.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Importance of Journal Citation Reports to Researchers<\/h2>\n<p>With the academic community evolving regularly, it is important not to\u00a0rely too heavily on any one source\u00a0when assessing the quality and impact of journals. There are limits to any metric and therefore the Journal Citation Report is continually updating the indicators it provides. Clarivate Analytics aims to counterbalance some of the more enduring problems that have been uncovered by researchers using the metrics. Therefore, despite the limitations, publications like the Journal Citation Report <a href=\"https:\/\/clarivate.com\/webofsciencegroup\/solutions\/journal-citation-reports\/\" class=\"broken_link\">remain influential and important to researchers<\/a> in the field of research publishing.<\/p>\n<p>Have you had the chance to check out the Journal Citation Reports 2020? What are your thoughts about this year\u2019s report? Please share your thoughts with us in the comments section below.<\/p>\n<div style=\"display:flex; gap:10px;justify-content:\" class=\"wps-pgfw-pdf-generate-icon__wrapper-frontend\">\n\t\t<a  href=\"https:\/\/www.enago.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29217?action=genpdf&amp;id=29217\" class=\"pgfw-single-pdf-download-button\" ><img data-src=\"https:\/\/www.enago.com\/academy\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-generator-for-wp\/admin\/src\/images\/PDF_Tray.svg\" title=\"Generate PDF\" style=\"width:auto; height:45px;\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\"><\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Selecting target journals is an important aspect of research publishing. 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