Quickly understand the role of each journal in the evolving scholarly publishing landscape to make informed decisions about manuscript submission, collection development and portfolio management.
Evaluate journals with a multidimensional view of a journal’s impact and influence. View citation metrics, including the Journal Impact FactorTM (JIFTM) and Journal Citation IndicatorTM, alongside descriptive open access statistics and contributor information.
Benchmark your journal’s performance against others in a discipline
Explore a rich array of leading indicators, descriptive data and compelling visualizations to make confident portfolio decisions and gain a deep
understanding of a journal’s influence on the global research community.
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.
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.
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A key difference between the Web of Science and the Journal Citation Reports is that the Web of Science is continually updated, while the JCR data represent a snapshot from a specific time, namely, the date when the data were extracted for analysis. This difference reflects the essential nature of each product.
The Web of Science is an evolving record of the dynamic world of scholarly communication with new source content continually added, including citations. JCR, on the other hand, is an annual report on the citation impact of a defined set of journals at a given moment in time.
Therefore, attempts to use the Web of Science data to replicate JCR metrics will lead to results that will vary from those reported in JCR.
Learn how you can make confident decisions using Journal Citation Reports.