Journal Citation Report

Journal Citation Reports (JCR) is a database in Web of Science for finding value, especial Impact Factor, of journals from statistical information based on citation data. JCR is published annually in July/ August in 2 editions that are JCR Science Edition, contains data about more than 8,000 journals in science and technology subject, and JCR Social Sciences Edition, contains data about more than 2,600 journals in social sciences subject. The Office of Academic Resources (OAR) has subscribed to JCR which provides a service for Chulalongkorn University users. 

What is Impact Factor?
Impact Factor (IF) is a measure the average times of citations to articles published in journals. 

For example, the 2011 IF of journal Advances in Applied Microbiology is 5.233 means the average of citations from this journal is 5.233 times per article. 

How to begin
Go to http://www.car.chula.ac.th/curef-db/slist.html#general, click ISI Web of Science, click tab Additional Resources, and then click Journal Citation Reports 

Information search
1. Select a JCR edition and year
2. Select an option from 3 choices
   2.1 View a group of journals by subject category, publisher, or country/ territory
   2.2 Search for a specific journal
   2.3 View all journals
3. Click SUBMIT 

4. Each option would be shown different screen.
   4.1 From 2.1, with selecting subject category, select one or more subject categories form the list, select to view journal data or aggregate category data, select sort, and click SUBMIT 

   4.2 From 2.2, select a choice such as full journal title, abbreviated journal title, title word, and ISSN, enter words from journal title or ISSN (users can view journal title by click view list of full journal titles), and click SEARCH 

   4.3 From 2.3, the screen would be shown journal summary list. 

Search results
From selecting JCR Science Edition 2011, view a group of journals by subject category, BIOTECHNOLOGY & APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY, and view journal data - sort by Journal Title, the result screen is shown as the following picture. 

The results are shown
1. Abbreviated journal title
2. ISSN
3. JCR data which are total cites, impact factor, 5 – year impact factor, immediacy index, articles, cited half – life
4. Eigenfactor metrics

Result Management
>> Users can sort results by selecting journal title, total cites, impact factor, immediacy index, current articles, cited half – life, 5 – year impact factor, Eigenfactor score, or article influence score and click SORT AGAIN
>> Users can select the interested journal title, click UPDATE MARKED LIST, and click MARK LIST to view only marked journal list. The example screen is shown as the following picture. 

>> Users can click SAVE TO FILE to save the list as text file
>> Users can click FORMAT FOR PRINT to open a screen for print such as the following picture. 

Information management
From the results, users can click journal title to view journal information. The screen is shown as the following picture. 

>> Click CITED JOURNAL DATA to view citations to the journal data
>> Click Cited Journal to view citations to the journal (per cited year) graph
>> Click CITING JOURNAL DATA to view citations from the journal data
>> Click Citing Journal to view citations from the journal (per cited year) graph
>> Click IMPACT FACTOR TREND to view impact factor trend 

>> Click Source Data to view journal source data
>> Click RELATED JOURNALS to view related journals and journal relatedness based on the strength of cited and citing relationships
>> Click JOURNAL RANKING to view journal ranking 