Using Journal Citation Reports- A Quick Guide
Journal Citation Reports (JCR) Science Edition is available NOAA-wide and allows you to evaluate and compare
journals using citation data drawn from 5,928 journals in 171 subject areas in the science field. JCR can show you:
- Most frequently cited journals in a field
- Highest impact journals in a field
- Largest journals in a field
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Accessing JCR
NOAA scientists and researchers can access MGA from their workstation desktops.
- From the library homepage at http://lib.ncep.noaa.gov, select “Databases and Electronic
Resources” from the left-hand menu.
- Scroll down to “Journal Citation Reports” and click on this link.
To compare all journals in a specific subject area
- From the JCR homepage, select the option to “View a group of journals by subject category” and click submit.
- Highlight the subject area that you are interested in (to select more than one category, use Ctrl-click for Windows or
Command-click for Macintosh) and click submit. This will give you a listing.
- Click on journal name for more information about that specific title, including publication information and journal source data.
A guide to terms:
- Total cites:
- total number of citations to this journal in 2006
- Impact factor:
- the number of citations in 2006 to items published in the previous 2 years divided by the total number of
articles & reviews published in the previous 2 years.
- Immediacy index:
- how often articles published in a journal are cited during their year of publication, can be an
indication of how “hot” a journal is.
- Cited Half Life:
- median age of articles in this journal that were cited in 2004
- Citing Half Life:
- median age of articles cited by the selected journal in its article references
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