A Reflection on United Arab Emirates (UAE) Journals in ISC

26 December 2020 | 11:25 Code : 1523 News Important News
visits:760

An Introduction to JCR

 

Journal Citation Reports (JCR) (https://jcr.isc.gov.ir/main.aspx) is derived from international Scientometric standards and is an essential tool for in-depth analysis and ranking of scholarly and professional journals. This tool covers different languages including Persian, English, French, and Arabic. By analyzing citations, Islamic World Journal Citation Reports measures research influence and impact at the journal and category levels and shows the relationship between citing and cited journals. Exploring the impact and influence of the Islamic World’s leading scholarly journals is possible by performing direct comparisons of titles using trend analysis.  This Product helps researchers keep up with the latest bibliometric developments, track publication and citation patterns to aid strategy and policy making, identify the most influential journals in which to publish articles, determine journal’s influence in the marketplace and review editorial functions.

 

JCR pursues significant goals in Islamic World:

  • Evaluating and ranking journals based on scientometric criteria
  • Systematic and objective review of the Islamic World’s leading journals
  • Providing the context to understand a journal’s true place in the scholarly world
  • Applying a combination of impact metrics, and citing and cited data points to comprise the complete Islamic World citation network.

 

JCR offers various analysis options:

  • journals’ Impact Factors
  • journals’ Immediacy Index
  • journals’ Cited Half-Life
  • journals’ Total Cites
  • journals’ Total Articles
  • Citing Journals
  • Cited Journals
  • Journals’ Bibliographic Information
  • Advanced Filtering Options
  • Trend Analyses

 

Subject Assignment in JCR

 

In JCR, there are three levels of subjects: Macro LevelMid-Level and Micro Level. ISC has assigned subjects according to categorization of Ministry of Science, Research and Technology of Iran until 2016. However, since 2017, subject assignment of ISC in JCR has been done based on international databases categorization, with some slight changes. The Macro Level subjects reported currently in ISC include: Life Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, Health Sciences, Physical Sciences and Multidisciplinary.

 

 A Reflection on United Arab Emirates (UAE) Journals in ISCA Reflection on United Arab Emirates (UAE) Journals in ISC

 

UAE, with 111 journals holds the 7th place among OIC countries after Iran (1702 journals (479 English journals)), Turkey (318 journals), Egypt (190 journals), Malaysia (170 journals), England (134 journals), and USA (152 journals). As shown in the table above, from among the 111 journals of UAE indexed in ISC, there are 14 journals in core collection, and the rest are in either waiting journals or primary journals of JCR (https://jcr.isc.ac/main.aspx). With respect to language, 108 UAE journals are in English and 3 are in Arabic.

 

A Reflection on United Arab Emirates (UAE) Journals in ISC

 

The subjects covered by UAE’s core collection journals include “Health Sciences”, “Life Sciences”, and “Physical Sciences” in Macro Level and “Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology”, “Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics”, “Medicine”, “Chemistry”, “Immunology and Microbiology”, “Agricultural and Biological Sciences”, “Engineering”, “Physics and Astronomy”, and “Materials Sciences” in Mid-level.

Based on the data, the journal “Recent Patents on Anti-Cancer Drug Discovery” with an Impact Factor of 0.367 are the best journals of UAE in ISC. It is Q1 in Macro Level Subjects of Health Sciences and Life Sciences and Mid-Level Subjects of “Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology”, “Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics”, and “Medicine”. It is in the Core Collection of JCR journals as well.

tags: UAE JCR EJCR ISC