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The Web of Science Group, a Clarivate Analytics company, released the latest Journal Citation Reports(JCR) on June 20th, 2019.

This release of JCR provides 2018 data (2018 Journal Impact Factor and other indicators) and the 2019 data will be available in the 2020 release.

The data will be updated biweekly till end of 2019 with notes about pending additions or adjustments to the JCR data.

The latest JCR data is available via JCR Web database and all UNIST members can access to JCR web.  

Go to JCR Web database

Highlights

• SCIE: 178 Subject categories, about 9,139 journals / SSCI: 58 Subject Categories, about 3,377 journals
• Coverage of 11,877 journals, including 283 titles new to the JCR – 108 of them fully Open Access.
• Research and scholarship representing 81 countries.
• New subject categories: Quantum Science & Technology (SCIE), Development Studies (SSCI) and Regional & Urban Planning (SSCI)
• Among covered journals, 64% demonstrate an increase in Journal Impact Factor (JIF).
• In 90% of the 236 research categories, an increase in the aggregate JIF.
• After thorough investigation of anomalous citation behavior, 17 journals were suppressed from the 2019 JCR to ensure the integrity of the data.

Journal Citation Report

Journal Citation Reports(JCR) is a collection of data to evaluate world’s leading journals. It offers 2-year and 5-year Impact Factor, Rank-in-Category tables, Journal Self-Citations, etc. based on citation data from Web of Science.