Journal Citation Reports - InCites provides journal impact factors and rankings across various disciplines. It collects citation data and calculates metrics like impact factor, immediacy index, and half-life for journals indexed in Web of Science. Impact factor is a measure of how frequently the average article in a journal is cited in a given year. It is calculated by dividing the number of times articles published in the last two years were cited by the total number of articles published in those two years. The document provides instructions on how to access Journal Citation Reports through the library database to search for journals, compare metrics between journals, and view trends in journal-level indicators over time.

1. Finding Journal Impact Factors
using Journal Citation Reports -
InCites

2. Journal Citation Reports -
InCites
• Provides ranking for journals in the areas of science, technology, and social
sciences.
• For every journal covered, the following information is collected or
calculated: Citation and article counts, Impact factor, Immediacy index,
Cited half-life, citing half-life, Source data listing, Citing journal listing,
Cited journal listing, Subject categories, Publisher information.
• Limited to the citation data of Journals indexed in Web of Science
• Because impact factors mean little on their own, it's best to view
the journal you are interested in comparison to the other journals in the
same category.

3. Journal Impact Factor
• The impact factor (IF) is a measure of the frequency with
which the average article in a journal has been cited in a
particular year.
• It is used to measure the importance or rank of a journal by
calculating the times it's articles are cited.
• The calculation is based on a two-year period and involves
dividing the number of times articles were cited by the
number of articles that are citable.

4. How the Journal Impact Factor is
calculated?

5. How to get to Scopus?
Go to the
library
homepage

6. Go Search &
Find then
Databases A-Z

7. Select the letter
J then Journal
Citation Reports

8. Can search for a
specific journal
or compare
journals

9. Search for a
specific journal

10. Journal indicators for a specific journal

11. To compare journals
by category select
categories to
compare

12. Comparison of Journals ranked by Impact Factor

13. Visualizations of Journals by Impact Factor

14. Journal key indicators

15. Journal Metric Trend

16. Thank You
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