Journal Selection Process [для издателей научных журналов]

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by  Testa J.

-Web of Science Core Collection Journal Selection Process:
SCIE – SSCI – AHCI
Introducing Emerging Sources Citation Index

-The Role of Citations and Journal Impact Factor in the
Journal Selection Process

James Testa
VP Emeritus Editorial Development & Publisher Relations
4th International Conference on Scientific Communication in the Digital Age, Ukraine

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THE JOURNAL SELECTION PROCESS:
MAIN OBJECTIVES
1. To evaluate and select the best scholarly journal
content available today for coverage in Web of
Science Core Collection.
As a result, the Web of Science Core Collection is known as the
worldwide source for top tier scholarly research published in the best
international and regional journals.
2. Provide the worldwide publishing community with
objective standards useful in building world-
class publications.
Thomson Reuters, through Web of Science, has built lasting
partnerships with the global scholarly publishing community. We
work together to improve the quality of scholarly communication
everywhere in the world.
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Web of Science Core Collection (Journals)
Flagship Citation Indexes:
Science Citation Index Expanded
Social Science Citation Index
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
New Edition in
Web of Science Core Collection:

Emerging Sources Citation Index
…a broader view of the scholarly literature.
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…considering Impact and output
From ESCI to SCIE, SSCI or AHCI?
What is possible?
Journals submitted for evaluation:

• May be evaluated and accepted for SCIE, SSCI,AHCI
• May be evaluated and accepted for ESCI
(and not SCIE,SSCI, AHCI)
• ESCI journals may be re-evaluated later for coverage in SCIE, SSCI, AHCI)
NOTE:
• Journals deselected from SCIE,SSCI, AHCI may migrate to
coverage in ESCI.
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ESCI is a True Citation Index
• Every cited reference from every issue is indexed.

• Track citation activity at the Journal Level.
• Track citation activity at the article level.
• ESCI citation activity used when evaluating journal
for SCIE,SSCI,AHCI adding more transparency.
• No Journal Impact Factor published for ESCI
journals.
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Bradford’s Law of Scattering


Garfield’s Law of Concentration
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“Articles of interest to a specialist must occur not only in the periodicals
specializing in his subject, but also from time to time, in other periodicals, which
grow in number as the relation of their fields to that of the subject lessens, and
the number of articles on his subject in each periodical diminishes”.
-S. C. Bradford
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Garfield’s Law of Concentration
Analysis of the Scholarly Literature –
2014 Journal Citation Reports
11,813 Journals: all categories of Science & Social Science

• 525 journals
• 50% of all citations received by the 11,813 journals
• 25 % of all papers published in the11,813 journals

• 4,470 journals
• 80% of all papers published in the 11,813 journals
• 85% of all citations received by the 11,813 journals
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Garfield’s Law of Concentration
“The tail of the literature of one discipline
consists, in large part, of the cores of the
literature of other disciplines.”
- E. Garfield

• As a result, the core literature of all scientific disciplines at the time
(1972) involved a group of not more than 1,000 journals and may
even possibly be reduced to as few as 500 journals.
• A relatively small number of journals account for the bulk of what is
published and what is cited.
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Thomson Reuters Journal Selection Process
for Web of Science: SCIE, SSCI, AHCI

Journal
International
Editorial Citation
Publishing
Focus:
Content Analysis
Standards
Authors, EAB
•Peer review
•How does this
•Does this journal
Total Citations:
journal compare
•Ethical publishing target an
with covered •Integration of the
practices International or
journal into the
journals of similar
Regional
•Meets technical literature over time
scope?
audience?
requirements
Impact Factor:
•Is this subject
(XML / PDF) •Is international
•Recent citation
already well
representation
•Timeliness of activity
covered?
among Authors
publication
Author, EAB
and EAB
•Will this journal
citations in the
•International editorial members at an
enrich WoS with
literature.
conventions appropriate level
novel content?
•Citation metrics
for this journal?
•English-language
have meaning only
bibliographic in the editorial
information context appropriate
Arts & Humanities journals are exceptional
for the journal.
•English full text may not be required

•Novel, well focused content (often regional) is essential
•Citation analysis plays a much smaller role. 10