1. Lívia Vasas, PhD vasas.livia@semmelweis-univ.hu 2017
Measuring the journals’ scientific prestige Mozilla Firefox/Google Chrome
Lívia Vasas, PhD
2017

2. Important resources
Journal Citation Reports - JCR
Scimago - SJR

3. To evaluate and compare journals using citation data - JCR
Contain:
scholarly and technical journals and conference proceedings
3 300 publishers in over 60 countries
in the areas of science, technology, and social sciences

4. IF value – calculation quotient
numerator
denominator

5. Impact factor calculation - Leukemia

6. InCite Journal Citation Reports

7. Search Journal titles
The Master Search page enables you to search for journal titles
using the JCR abbreviated journal title, the full journal title,  ISSN or eISSN number

9. Question What was the „Lancet” journal IF value in 2008? 5.440 28.331
28.409
32.220

10. What was the IF value of „Nature” journal in 2006?
25.814
30.979
26.681
41.456

11. Categories

12. Category: Oncology

13. Inside the categories….immunology

14. In the subject of „Immunology”what was the lowest IF value in 2014?
0.200
1.230
2.110
0.280

15. About the Quartile of the Journal
In its subject category
- Q1 denotes the top 25% of the IF distribution,
- Q2 for middle-high position (between top 50% and top 25%),
- Q3 middle-low position (top 75% to top 50%),
- Q4 the lowest position (bottom 25% of the IF distribution)

16. The place of the selected journal/s only in its category „Quartile”

17. Questions How many journals were in 2015 in „Surgery” category?
In this category in 2015 what was the lowest IF value?
0, , ,022

18. Questions Analyse the following journals in 2014 Annals of Surgery
Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry
American Journal of Transplantation
- In the „Surgery” category which journals belong to the Q1 ?
all
- Which has the highest if value?
Annals of surgery

19. Compere 5 journals data „trends”

20. Questions
How many Hungarian journals can be found in Science Citation Index Expanded in 2014? (SCIE)
How many Hungarian periodicals are in 2015 in Q3? (SCIE and SSCI)
How many Hungarian periodicals are in 2014 in Q2? (SCIE and SSCI)
How many German periodicals are in in Q1?
(SCIE and SSCI) 6

21. Questions How many journals are?
- year: 2015, from England, SCIE ed, Q1
and open acces
- year: 2011 from England, SCIE and SSCI eds,
IF between 8-10

22. Title Suppressions significant distortion of the Journal Impact Factor Transparency and Accountability
In the interest of fairness and accuracy for all journals, the distortion of the Journal Impact Factor by an excessive concentration of citations gives rise to the need for suppression.
Titles are suppressed for one year and are reevaluated annually.

23. Problem http://wokinfo.com/media/pdf/jcr-suppression.pdf

24. Problem

25. Official citation for JRC
The JCR data year that you are referencing.
The full name, Journal Citation Reports. Include the registered trademark symbol.
 Name of the publisher: Thomson Reuters
Copyright year: The copyright year appears at the bottom of every page in JCR.
Examples:
2015 Journal Citation Reports® Science Edition (Thomson Reuters, 2015)
2015 Journal Citation Reports® Social Sciences Edition (Thomson Reuters, 2015)
2015 Journal Citation Reports® (Thomson Reuters, 2015)

26. Scimago http://scimagojr.com/

27. Scimago
The SCImago Journal & Country Rank is a portal that includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus® database (Elsevier B.V.). These indicators can be used to assess and analyze scientific domains.
This indicator shows the visibility of the journals contained in the Scopus® database from 1996.

37. Title: Nanomedicine United Kingdom ISSN: 17486963, 17435889
Was the SJR value of this journal in 2010?
2,223
2,277
3,552

38. About International Collaboration
A journal title is: CELL
The % of International collaboration in 2014
10,00
20,18
31,96
40,00

40. SCOPUS compare sources

41. Thank you!