Journal Citation Reports
Medical Dictionary: Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
Journal Citation Reports (pronounced: /ˈdʒɜːrnəl ˌsaɪtəˈreɪʃən rɪˈpɔːrts/), often abbreviated as JCR, is a product of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI).
Etymology
The term "Journal Citation Reports" is derived from the primary function of the tool, which is to provide reports on the citation data of academic journals. The term "citation" (pronounced: /saɪˈteɪʃən/) comes from the Latin word "citare", which means "to call". In this context, a citation is a reference to a published or unpublished source.
Overview
The Journal Citation Reports provides information about academic journals in the sciences and social sciences, including impact factors, journal rankings, and more. It is a tool used by academics and researchers to identify top-tier journals and to understand the citation habits within their field.
Related Terms
- Impact Factor: A measure of the frequency with which the average article in a journal has been cited in a particular year. It is used to measure the importance or rank of a journal by calculating the times it's articles are cited.
- ISI Web of Science: An online subscription-based scientific citation indexing service originally produced by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), now maintained by Clarivate Analytics.
- Citation Index: A kind of bibliographic database, an index of citations between publications, allowing the user to easily establish which later documents cite which earlier documents.
- H-index: An author-level metric that attempts to measure both the productivity and citation impact of the publications of a scientist or scholar.
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