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Citing Half-Life Journal Self-Cites (adjusted Impact Factor) MARKED JOURNAL LIST
The Citing Half-Life identifies the number of This table shows what percentage of a The Marked Journal List page displays
years from the current year that account journal’s total citation count is a result of all the journals you have marked during
for 50% of the cited references from articles journal self-citation (e.g. a paper in Nature a session. Up to 500 journals display on
published by a journal in the current year. cites another paper published in Nature). the Marked Journal List page.
Used together with the Cited Half-Life, The table displays Total Cites, Total Cites
this number aids the evaluation of without self-cites, Impact Factor, and an You can mark journals on the Journal
editorial policies. adjusted Impact Factor excluding journal List Summary page by selecting the
self-cites. Mark check box next to the records you
Cited Journal Graph want, and then clicking Update Marked
This graph shows the distribution by cited Related Journals List. You can also click Mark All to add
year of citations to articles published in the The Related Journals page identifies all records to your marked list.
selected journal. journals which have a subject relationship
with the object journal based on citations On the Full Record page, select the
Citing Journal Graph either given or received. They are ranked Mark check box to add the record to your
This graph shows the distribution by cited by their degree of relatedness. This list marked list. Click the Marked List button
year of citations from current year articles in can be useful for identifying journals that on the toolbar to go to the Marked
the selected journal. are dependent upon one another, but Journal List page.
which may be classified in different subject
Source Data Table Note: The Marked Journal List page
categories.
The Source Data table provides information keeps all your marked journals while you
regarding the number of review articles Subject Category Data are searching through a particular JCR
versus original research articles that are Aggregate category data is available for edition and year. If you change the JCR
published by a particular journal. This all subject categories in the JCR. These edition or year, you are asked if you want
number also includes the number of to clear the Marked List.
category statistics can be useful for
references cited by the articles. A blank placing journal data in a larger context.
entry indicates that the references from a Use the available options on this
All data elements available for individual page to:
journal were not processed for inclusion in journals are also available at the category
the citation indexes. level, including Aggregate Impact Factor, Print Records
Aggregate Immediacy Index and Aggregate 1. Click the Format for Print button to
Cited Journal Data
Cited/Citing Half-Life. display journal information for the
The Cited Journal page identifies those
marked journals.
publications that most frequently cite a
CONDITIONS THAT MAY AFFECT JOURNAL 2. Click your browser’s Print function to
particular journal. These citation links can
RANKINGS AND IMPACT FACTORS print the file.
reveal a journal’s subject orientation, point
• If a journal publishes a large number 3. Click the Return to Marked List
to its closest peer or competitor publication, button to return to the Marked
of reviews one year, there may be a
and highlight a specialty-specific network Journal List page.
temporary increase in the number of
of journals.
citations received.
• Sudden changes in a journal’s size can Save Records
Citing Journal Data 1. Click the Save to File button to
The Citing Journal page identifies those affect the Impact Factor. For example,
display a File Download dialog box.
publications that were most frequently cited when an article count drops, the Impact
2. Click the Save button to display the
by a particular journal. These citation links Factor may rise temporarily.
Save As dialog box.
can reveal a journal’s subject orientation, • In the first year after a journal title
3. Type a file name in the File Name
point to its closest peer or competitor change, the new title is listed without an text box. Ensure that you give the file
publication, and highlight a specialty- Impact Factor because the article count name a .txt extension.
specific network of journals. for the two preceding years used in the 4. Select a folder to store the saved
Impact Factor calculations is zero. text file.
Rank in Category 5. Click the Save button.
This information places a journal in the
larger context of its assigned subject Remove Records
area(s). The Rank in Category table displays 1. Clear the Mark check box next to the
the journal’s numerical rank and its quartile journal(s) you wish to remove.
distribution based on Impact Factor. The
box plot graph visualizes the quartile 2. Click the Update Marked List button
distribution of journal Impact Factors in to redisplay the list with the selected
each category, as well as the mean and journals removed. You can also
median Impact Factor values and any click the Clear Marked List button
to remove all the journals from the
outlier values for the category.
marked list.
EIGENFACTOR® METRICS Article InfluenceTM Score Getting Help
Eigenfactor Metrics are based on the JCR The Article Influence Score measures the The Thomson Scientific Customer Support
cited journal data and consider not just the relative importance of the journal on a per- Center provides you with a single point of
counts of citations a journal receives but article basis. It is the journal’s Eigenfactor access for all available support materials
also the structure of the citation network Score divided by the fraction of articles and reference tools for Journal Citation
as a whole to measure citation influence in published by the journal. That fraction is Reports, including educational tutorials,
the scholarly literature. These metrics are normalized so that the sum total of articles training and technical support.
available for JCR year 2007 and later. from all journals is 1.
http://wokinfo.com/training_support/
More detailed information can be found at The mean Article Influence Score is 1.00. training/
http://www.eigenfactor.org. A score greater than 1.00 indicates that
Click the Help button on any page to get
articles in that journal have an above-
Eigenfactor® Score detailed help on features, along with search
average influence; a score less than 1.00
The Eigenfactor Score is measured using tips and examples. If you have questions
indicates that the articles in the journal
the current JCR year citations to citable that are not addressed in the help, contact
have a below-average influence.
items from the five previous years. While the Technical Help Desk.
the Impact Factor weighs each citation to http://ip-science.thomsonreuters.com/
a journal equally, the Eigenfactor Score techsupport/
assigns a greater weight to those citations
coming from influential journals, allowing Questions about network connections and/
these journals to exert greater influence in or the use of your Web browser should be
the determination of the rank of any journal directed to your network administrator.
which they reference. The Eigenfactor Score
does not count journal self-citations. The TUTORIAL AVAILABLE!
sum of Eigenfactor scores for all journals An educational tutorial of Journal Citation
is 100; each journals Eigenfactor Score is a Reports is available at:
percentage of this total. http://wokinfo.com/training_support/
training/journal-citation-reports/.
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