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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 worldclass 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.

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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“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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