The Most Frequently Asked Question by a Researcher · 4 Some Viable Publishing Strategies “I want...

The Most Frequently

Asked Question by a

Researcher

October 2018

Dju-Lyn CHNG

Solution Consultant (Southeast Asia)Dju-Lyn.Chng@Clarivate.com

How do I get published?

Which journal should I

publish in?

WHERE you publish is the most important factor to determine if your

paper gets cited

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-08404-0

“For the literature as a whole — 39 million research papers

across all disciplines recorded in the Web of Science from

1900 to the end of 2015 — some 21% haven’t yet been cited.

Unsurprisingly, most of these uncited papers appear in little-

known journals; almost all papers in well-known journals

do get cited”

Some Viable Publishing Strategies

“I want to publish in journals with

high rank and prestige”

“I want to publish in journals that gets

cited for a long time”

“I aim for journals that get cited

very quickly”

“I look for internationally recognized

journals.”

Strategy How?

Use Web of Science or JCR to find

high quality international

journals

Use “Cited Half Life” metric in

Use “Immediacy Index” metric

in JCR

Find journal ranking and

quartiles in JCR

“I look for government accredited

journals”Refer to Malaysian Citation Index

published by MOHE

What is the JCR?

The JCR is an annual report that distills citation trend data from the Web of Science Core Collection to help you understand journal performance.

• View Journal Impact Factor and other metrics.

• Data represents a snapshot in time: the 2018 edition reflects citations from literature published in 2017.

• All journals in JCR are sourced from two indexes:

Science Citation Index Expanded

Social Sciences Citation Index

• Citations are sourced from all indexes in the Core Collection.

New in 2018: Citations from the Book Citation Index content contribute to Journal Impact Factor numerators.

But…

Why use Journal Citation

Reports?

Why use the JCR?

Publishers/Editors• Compare your journals directly against peers and competitors. • Understand the citation profile of the documents in your journals.• Track your publications’ performance by building a custom journal

Librarians• Find quantitative data to justify your collection development

decisions.• Evaluate your collections with custom journal lists.• Track your faculty/institution’s contributions to journal

performance.

Data Scientists• Dive deeper into the JCR data with our downloadable cited and

citing data tables, as well as the full data and metrics files, to understand how disciplines interconnect in the citation network.

Researchers• Evaluate journals for your submissions.• Focus on publishing trends like Open Access• Determine your articles’ contributions to journal performance.

Journal Citation Reports provides NEUTRAL and OBJECTIVE

Journal Measurements

https://clarivate.com/blog/science-research-connect/research-management/citescore-a-non-rival-for-the-journal-impact-factor/

“We carefully weed out any predatory and non-peer-reviewed

journals, so you can be confident that only the best journals are

eligible to be given a JIF score.”

“Clarivate Analytics is neutral: we are not a publisher and

we have no plans to become one.”

What this means:

Clarivate doesn’t own journals, they are an information company. This

makes JCR rankings objective and unbiased.

What this means:

Impact Factor is precious and ONLY THE BEST journals receive one.

“I want to publish in journals

with high rank and prestige”

Journal Citation Reports

JCR covers only Sciences & Social Sciences Journals

Science Citation Index –

Expanded

Social Science

Citation Index

Arts and Humanities

Citation Index

Emerging Sources

Conference Proceedings

Book Citation Index

Impact Factors

reported annually in

the Journal Citation

Reports

NO Impact Factor

The world well-known Journal Impact Factor

2015 2016 2017

IF2017 =# of citations to all items published in 2015 and 2016

Articles & reviews published in 2015 and 2016

Journal Impact Factor is Proprietary to Clarivate

View summary journal

information within the

Web of Science interface

15Every journal has a story to tell – JCR tells it

The Journal Impact Factor is a very useful tool forevaluation of journals, but it must be used carefully.At its core, the Journal Impact Factor is used to comparedifferent journals within a certain field, bearing in mindconsiderations including the amount of review or othertypes of material published in a journal, variationsbetween disciplines, and item-by-item impact.

• 1963, Eugene Garfield launches Science Citation Index, ISI, Philadelphia• Garfield develops concept of Citation Indexing for research discovery

• The Impact Factor was developed to help select journals for SCI• Available in 1975

Using Journal Impact Factor

Scores as a measure (or proxy)

of performance for individual

papers or authors represents

IMPROPER USE of the metric

in research evaluation.

CONTEXT IS EVERYTHING!

1.70mIS tall or short?

1.751.70

How good an impact factor is depends on subject!

3.45Is an IF of good or poor?

4.03.45

Metrics are Subject Discipline Dependent

Journal ranking is subject dependent

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Journal ranking is subject dependent

25%median

Three scenarios for publication strategy

25%median

Moderate Approach

Conservative Approach

High Standard Approach

JCR Home Page: Journals by Rank

See all journals

in JCR

Many indicators are

available

Search for

names of

journals

JCR Home Page: Categories by Rank

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