There is a new 2024 update to the Journal Citation Reports (JCR). The reports provide a comprehensive resource of high-quality journals, ranked by field to enable academic institutions, researchers and publishers to investigate the ranking of journals in the global research landscape. The rankings include the addition of the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Only journals that have met the quality standards for inclusion in the Web of Science Core Collection are featured within the Journal Citation Reports. The annual reports provide publisher–independent data, metrics and analysis to enhance user understanding of journal performance, including the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) and the Journal Citation Indicator.
This year, for the first time, the JCR includes unified rankings across subject categories. There will no longer be separate JIF rankings for the nine subject categories that are indexed in multiple editions. Now those journals will receive a single ranking in their subject category, and the separate rankings will be eliminated, eg. a psychiatry journal listed in SCIE and SSCI will now be ranked in one unified Psychiatry ranking.
Key highlights for the 2024 release include:
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The JCR has been enhanced to provide a more comprehensive user experience. It includes the integration of journals from the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) in the new unified category rankings.
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Coverage of more than 21,800 journals including ~5,800 journals which publish all their content open access.
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Scholarly journals from 113 countries, across 254 categories are recognised and receive a JIF. This includes 14,090 science journals, 7,321 social science journals and 3,304 arts & humanities journals.
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544 journals receive a Journal Impact Factor for the first time.