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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.
In any given year, the CiteScore of a journal is the number of citations, received in that year and in previous three years, for documents published in the journal during the total period (four years), divided by the total number of published documents (articles, reviews, conference papers, book chapters, and data papers) in the journal during the same four-year period: [3]
The journal is abstracted and indexed in Medline, BIOSIS Previews, [11] Chemical Abstracts Service, [12] Science Citation Index Expanded, [11] and Scopus. [13] According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 6.4. [14] The journal opposes the over-reliance on the impact factor by the scientific community. [15]
The journal is published monthly by John Wiley & Sons. According to the Journal Citation Reports , the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 3.885, ranking it 147th out of 297 journals in the category "Biochemistry and Molecular Biology" [ 1 ] and 121st out of 195 journals in the category "Cell Biology".
The journal was established in 2011 and covers all aspects of life sciences, from basic to applied research. It publishes reviews, research articles, short communications, perspectives, and hypotheses. The journal is organized in 20 sections. [1] Since 2014, the journal offers open peer review (optional, at the authors' discretion). [2] [3]
The journal was established in 2003 and is published by BioMed Central. The editor-in-chief is Holger Schünemann (McMaster University). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 2.278. [1]
The Eigenfactor score, developed by Jevin West and Carl Bergstrom at the University of Washington, is a rating of the total importance of a scientific journal. [1] Journals are rated according to the number of incoming citations, with citations from highly ranked journals weighted to make a larger contribution to the eigenfactor than those from poorly ranked journals. [2]