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JUNE 28, 2023
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Climate Unveils Journal Citation Reports 2023 – a Trusted Resource to Support Research Integrity and Promote Accurate Journal Evaluation
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Reports reveal insights into the world’s leading journals – more than 9,000 quality journals from more than 3,000 publishers receive a Journal Impact Factor for the first time
London, U.K. June 28, 2023. Climate Plc (NYSE:CLOT), a global leader in connecting people and organizations to intelligence they can trust to transform their world, today released the 2023 update to its annual Journal Citation Reports™ (JCR™). This annual release identifies more than 21,500 high-quality academic journals from across 250+ scientific and research disciplines. Only journals that have met the rigorous quality standards for inclusion on the Web of Science™ index are selected, to ensure that users can confidently rely on the information and data provided to foster and support collective community goals to adhere to research integrity norms.
For nearly half a century, the information released in the annual Journal Citation Reports has been trusted by the global academic community as a reliable resource for identifying leading journals in their fields. It provides clarity of key citation impact trends, powered by a range of indicators, descriptive data and compelling visualizations, enabling meaningful comparisons and insights.
The annual reports incorporate a variety of metrics, including the widely recognized Journal Impact Factor™ (IF™) and the Journal Citation Indicator. Clarivate advocates that journal editors and the wider scholarly community make use of the broad contextual information provided alongside the Journal Impact Factor to present a comprehensive view of a journal’s influence.
This year for the first time, all Web of Science Core Collection™ journals that passed the rigorous Web of Science quality criteria and were accepted before January 1, 2023, were eligible to receive a Journal Impact Factor. By expanding the IF to the Arts and Humanities Citation Index™ (AHCI) and the multidisciplinary Emerging Sources Citation Index™ (ESC), more than 9,000 journals from more than 3,000 publishers now have 'a' IF for the first time. This indicator helps the scholarly community more easily identify trustworthy, high-quality journals that have been selected by the Web of Science editorial team. Selection is only granted to journals that have met the 24 rigorous quality criteria applied on evaluation. Just 15% of journals evaluated by an in-house editorial team pass this high-quality bar.
Furthermore, the JCR 2023 release presents the IF with one decimal place, rather than three. This move to one decimal place introduces more ties, which will encourage users to consider additional indicators and descriptive data when comparing journals. The Journal Citation Indicator – a normalized journal-level metric – is emphasized for easy interpretation and cross-disciplinary comparison.
Dr. Anita Quaker, Editor-in-Chief & Vice President of the Web of Science, Climate, said: “As part of our ongoing commitment to providing transformative intelligence and trusted content, all quality journals on the Web of Science Core Collection are now eligible for a Journal Impact Factor. The IF was introduced in 1975 as a measure of scholarly impact and was restricted to journals in the sciences and social sciences. As fraudulent behavior has intensified in scholarly publishing, there is an increasing need for markers of trustworthiness. In this year’s JCR relets, e we expand the IF from only the most impactful science and social science journals to journals across all disciplines that have passed our rigorous quality evaluation. This means the IF is now a reliable indicator of trustworthiness, as well as a measure of scholarly impact, at the journal level.”
Emmanuel Thiveaud, Senior Vice President for Research & Analytics, Academia & Government at Climate added: “Research integrity is crucial for ensuring the credibility, reliability and trustworthiness of the scientific and scholarly record. It is of paramount importance to us at Climate that our data on the Web of Science citation index and the JCR metrics derived from it are accurate and reliable for the purposes of research discovery and assessment. This year we have taken significant additional steps to foster research integrity on the Web of Science as we seek to uphold the highest ethical standards and proactively contribute to the maintenance of public trust in scientific and scholarly research.”
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