This document provides instructions for finding journals and their impact factors using the Web of Science platform. It explains how to search for journals by topic, publication years, and source titles. It then describes how to find the impact factor of a specific journal by clicking on an article from that journal and viewing the journal information section. Alternatively, it shows how to search for a journal's impact factor directly in Journal Citation Reports by typing the full journal title. Finally, it demonstrates how to find journals by subject category and sort them by impact factor.

1. How to find journals with
impact factor at the
Web of Science platform
Sergey Paramonov, PhD
Darya Bukhtoyarova
Customer Education Specialists
Scientific & Scholarly Research

2. Access Web of Science
webofscience.com

3. Choose the database:
WEB OF SCIENCE CORE COLLECTION

4. Choose the field: TOPIC

5. Type your query (2-3 keywords in English)
Then press Search

6. Choose the subject category
Then press Refine

7. Go to Publication Years on the Refine
Results panel
To see all years, choose
more options / values…

8. Sort by Alphabetical order

9. Choose publication dates relevant to you
Use Refine button to see selected
years only.
Use Exclude button to see
everything except selected years.

10. Go to Source Titles on the Refine Results
panel
To see the entire list,
choose
more options / values…

11. Finding journals for publishing your research
As a general rule, the first 5-10 journals
in the list will be most similar in scope
to your request.
Write these titles down or save them
on your computer.

12. Finding impact factor of a journal in WEB OF
SCIENCE (1)
Click on the title of any
article from the journal of
interest.

13. Finding impact factor of a journal in WEB OF
SCIENCE (2)
In full record, you will see the bibliographic
information about the article and the journal.
If the journal has an impact factor, you will
see the View Journal Information link.
If you do not see this link, the journal does
not have an impact factor.

14. Finding impact factor of a journal in WEB OF
SCIENCE (3)

15. Finding impact factor of a journal in WEB OF
SCIENCE (4)
In the full record, find the Journal
Information section. If the journal has an
impact factor, you will see the Journal
Citation Reports link underneath.
If you do not see this link, the journal does
not have an impact factor.

16. Finding impact factor of a journal in WEB OF
SCIENCE (5)
You will see the
latest impact factor
for this journal on the
graph and
underneath it.
Write down or save
this information for
the journal of your
interest.

17. Finding impact factor of a journal in WEB OF
SCIENCE (6)
To find a journal in Web
of Science, go to the
Search page
Select the Publication Name
field. Start typing the journal title
– you will see suggested options
appearing. Select the journal you
need and press Search.

18. Finding impact factor of a journal in Journal
Citation Reports (1)

19. Finding impact factor of a journal in Journal
Citation Reports (2)
Choose the JCR Science Edition or JCR Social Sciences
Edition index, depending your journal of interest.
Click Search for a specific journal on the right.

20. Finding impact factor of a journal in Journal
Citation Reports (3)
Type the full title of the
journal and click
Search

21. Finding impact factor of a journal in Journal
Citation Reports (4)
You will see the latest
impact factor in the table.
Write down or save this
number for your journal of
interest.

22. Finding journals by subject category (1)
Choose the JCR Science Edition or JCR Social Sciences
Edition index, depending your journal of interest.
Click View a group of journals by on the right and choose
the Subject Category option.

23. Finding journals by subject category (2)
Choose the subject
category you need and
click Submit

24. Finding journals by subject category (3)
Under Sort by, choose
Impact Factor and
click Sort Again

25. Finding journals by subject category (4)
To find articles of a journal
from this list, perform a
search in Web of Science, as
described in slide 16.

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