INCITESTM JOURNAL CITATION REPORTS

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Impact Factor quartile

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percentile

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Quick Reference Guide— WHAT IS INCITES JOURNAL CITATION REPORTS?
Journal Citation Reports® provides a systematic, objective means to evaluate the world’s leading research journals.
It offers a unique perspective for journal evaluation and comparison by accumulating and tabulating citation andarticle counts from virtually all specialties in the sciences, social sciences, and technology fields. To help you compare
journals and discover which are the most significant to you, Journal Citation Reports can show:•••

Most frequently cited journals in a field
Hottest journals in a field
Highest impact journals in a field••

Most published articles in a field
Subject category data for benchmarking

JCR citation data comes from more than 11,800 journals, representing over 2,500 publishers worldwide in over 230
disciplines. Each annual edition contains the previous year’s publication data and shows the relationship between citing
and cited journals, in a clear, easy-to-use framework.

JOURNAL COMPARISON REPORTCREATE and SAVE side-by-side
journal comparisons that include
trend and quartile data over time

VISUALIZE the citing or cited data
relationships between a journal
and the top 20 journals in itsnetwork

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Quick Reference Guide— KEY METRICSTOTAL CITESCITABLE ITEMS

Total cites indicate the total number of times that eachjournal has been cited by all journals included in thedatabase within the current JCR year.

The number of items considered in the denominatorof the Impact Factor calculation. Document types
considered citable are Articles and Reviews. Editorials,news items, and similar content are excluded fromthe denominator, but can contribute citations to thenumerator.

IMPACT FACTORThe Impact Factor identifies the frequency with whichan average article from a journal is cited in a particularyear. You can use this number to evaluate or compare ajournal’s relative importance to others in the same fieldor see how frequently articles are cited to determine
which journals may be better for your collection.

FIVE-YEAR IMPACT FACTORThe Five-Year Impact Factor is the average number oftimes articles from the journal published in the last fiveyears have been cited in the JCR year. This metric canbe used to better gauge the impact of journals in fields
where the influence of published research evolves over alonger period of time.

IMMEDIACY INDEXThe Immediacy Index measures how frequently theaverage article from a journal is cited within the same
year as publication. This number is useful for evaluating
journals that publish cutting-edge research.

CITED HALF-LIFE
The cited half-life benchmarks the age of cited articles
by showing the number of years back from the current
year that account for 50% of the total number ofcitations to a journal in the current year. This number isuseful in making collection management and archiving
decisions. A publisher may use this number to adjust
editorial policies to compete in different market
segments.

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JIF (JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR) PERCENTILE
The journal’s rank in category, determined by Impact
Factor, expressed as a percentile. For example, a journal
with a JIF percentile of 89 performs better than 89% ofjournals in that category.

EIGENFACTOR® METRICS
Eigenfactor metrics are based on the JCR-cited journal
data and consider not only the counts of citations ajournal receives but also the structure of the citation
network as a whole to measure citation influence in thescholarly literature. These metrics are available for JCR
year 2007 and later. More detailed information can befound at http://www.eigenfactor.org.

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