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Journal Citation Reports (JCR) is an annual publication by Clarivate. [1] It has been integrated with the Web of Science and is accessed from the Web of Science Core Collection. It provides information about academic journals in the natural and social sciences, including impact factors. JCR was originally published as a part of the Science ...
The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a scientometric index calculated by Clarivate that reflects the yearly mean number of citations of articles published in the last two years in a given journal, as indexed by Clarivate's Web of Science.
Society is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering research in the social sciences and public policy. It was established in 1963 as Transaction: Social Science and Modern SOCIETY by Irving Louis Horowitz. It was published by Transaction Publishers before being purchased by Springer Science+Business Media in 2003.
The simplest journal-level metric is the journal impact factor, the average number of citations that articles published by a journal in the previous two years have received in the current year, as calculated by Clarivate. Other companies report similar metrics, such as the CiteScore, based on Scopus.
Journal ranking is widely used in academic circles in the evaluation of an academic journal's impact and quality. Journal rankings are intended to reflect the place of a journal within its field, the relative difficulty of being published in that journal, and the prestige associated with it.
Dystopian societies appear in many sub-genres of fiction and are often used to draw attention to society, environment, politics, economics, religion, psychology, ethics, science, or technology. Some authors use the term to refer to existing societies, many of which are, or have been, totalitarian states or societies in an advanced state of ...
The journal is abstracted and indexed in Scopus and the Social Sciences Citation Index.According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2019 one-year impact factor is 1.39, and its five-year impact factor is 1.987, ranking it 71st out of 150 in the category "Sociology", 69th out of 138 in the category "Psychology, Multidisciplinary", and 55th out of 92 in the category "Communication".
Dystopias are often characterized by fear or distress, tyrannical governments, environmental disaster, or other characteristics associated with a cataclysmic decline in society. Themes typical of a dystopian society include: complete control over the people in a society through the usage of propaganda, heavy censoring of information or denial ...