The Journal Selection Process Spanish Research in Web of Science

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The Journal Selection Process Spanish
Research in Web of Science

• James Testa
• Senior Director
• Editorial Development / Publisher Relations
• Madrid, June 12, 2008

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Impact Factor in Context Origins and Use

• Thomson Reuters Introduction
• Brief Overview of Journal Selection Process
• Focus Impact Factor
• Regional Content Expansion
• Research from Spain in Web of Science
• Journals
• Papers
• Citations
• How to Improve your journal.

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Web of Science

• SCIExpanded
• Social Sciences Citation Index
• Arts Humanities Citation Index

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Thomson Journal Selection Process Why be
Selective? Eugene Garfield PhD

• Small number of journals publish the bulk of
  significant scientific results.
• 7,621 journals in SCIE and SSCI publish 814,967
  articles that receive 20,834,641 citations
• 300 journals (4) publish 239,206 articles (30)
• 300 journals (4) receive 10,681,596 citations
  ((51)
• 3,000 journals (40) publish 648,906 articles
  (80)
• 3,000 journals receive (40) 19,287,265 citations
  (92)
• 2000 journals evaluated annually
• 10 accepted
• Thomson editors information professionals
  librarians experts in the literature of their
  subject area.

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• Journal Selection
• 1. Basic Journal Publishing Standards
• 2. Editorial Content
• 3. International Diversity
• 4. Citation Analysis

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• Journal Selection
• 1.) Publishing Standards
• a.) Timeliness
• b.) Editorial Conventions
• c.) English Language Bibliographic
  
• Information
• d.) Peer Review

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• ... Journal Selection
• 2.) Editorial Content
• Will this journal enrich the database or is the
  subject already well covered?
• Will this journal complement coverage in a
  specific category?
• How does this journal compare with covered
  journals of similar editorial content?

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• ... Journal Selection
• 3.) International Diversity
• Do the authors, editors, and editorial advisory
  board members represent the international
  research community?
• Does this journal target an International of
  Regional audience?

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• ... Journal Selection
• 4.) Citation Analysis
• For new journals we analyze citations to the
  authors prior work. Has the work of these
  authors been cited in the literature?
• For established journals we use Impact Factor

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• Impact Factor
• the average number of times recent articles in a
  journal were cited in a particular year.
• citation performance of the journal as a whole,
  and not the performance of any specific article.

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Top 20 Biomedical Journals by Number of Articles
Published in 2006
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Top 20 Biomedical Journals by Total Citations
Recd 2006
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Top 20 Biomedical Journals by 2006 Impact Factor
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Time
2006
2005
2007
2004
2003
All Previous Years
2006 Impact Factor
Citations
Source paper published in 2006
Cited reference to items published in 2005 or
2004
Cites in 2006 to 2005 or 2004 papers
Impact Factor
Papers published in 2005 or 2004
The average number of citations in 2006 to
scholarly material that was published in the
prior two years
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• Emerging Infectious Diseases
• 2006 Impact factor 5.094

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• Journal Citation Reports (JCR) -- 2006 Science
  Edition
• Impact Factor Calculation
• Journal Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Impact Factor 5.094
• Cites in 2006 to articles published in
• 2005 1645
• 2004 1982
• 05 04 3627
• Number of articles published in
• 2005 338
• 2004 374
• 05 04 712
• Calculation
• Cites to recent articles 3627
  5.094
• Number of recent articles 712

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Impact Factor in Context of Various Categories
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Germany Top Ten Journals Ranked by 2006 Impact
Factor

• Impact Factor Range 13.667 5.015
• Industrialized nation fully developed research
  infrastructure
• All journals publish full text English
• All journals produced by major publishers
  (Springer, Wiley, Elsevier)

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Japan Top Ten Journals Ranked by 2006 Impact
Factor

• Impact Factor range 7.320 1.963
• Industrialized nation fully developed research
  infrastructure
• 9 out of 10 journals publish full text English
• Elsevier, Blackwell, Oxford, and Springer present

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Brazil Top Ten Journals Ranked by 2006 Impact
Factor

• Impact Factor range 1.208 0.413
• Emerging nation
• Five of ten journals publish full text English
• No major publisher involved.

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• Properly used Impact Factor can tell us something
  about a journal as a whole namely the extent to
  which its recently published papers were cited in
  a given year.
• It tells us nothing concrete about any specific
  paper or specific author. Most articles in most
  fields are not highly cited. Less than 25 of
  all articles receive 5 or more citations and
  many articles are never cited.

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Regional Content Expansion

• Mission
• Meet the needs of the emerging and growing
  regional community of WoS users.
• Identify, evaluate, and select the best Regional
  Journals.
• Regional journals target a regional rather than
  an international audience.
• Regional journals focus on topics of regional
  importance (e.g. social sciences, clinical
  medicine, agriculture)
• Cover Regional Journals that complement our
  renowned international coverage in all areas of
  science, social science, and arts humanities.
• Expand the Editorial Scope of Web of Science to
  include the best international and regional
  journals published today.

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Regional Content Expansion

• 2007 Goal
• Identify, evaluate, select
• 700 of the best regional journals
• Journals including regional scholarship,
  targetting a regional rather than international
  audience, presenting research from a regional
  perspective.
• The quality of each of these newly added
  journals is on the level the world has come to
  expect from the Web of Science.
• James Testa, Sr, Dir. Ed. Dev. Publisher Rel.

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Regional Journal Content Expansion -
2007Breakdown for Regional and Subject Area
Subject Areas AH Arts Humanities ABES
AgBio Environmental Sci CM Clinical
Medicine ECT Engineering Computing
Technology LS Life Science PCES
PhysChem Earth Science SBS Social
Behavioral Science
Regions AP Asia Pacific EU European
Union LA Latin America MA Middle
East/Africa NA North America
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Research in Spain
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Spain Journals in WoS 2002 - 2008
Steady increase in Spanish journal
coverage 87 increase from 2002 to 2008
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Growth in Papers in Spain, 1981-2007
The rate of growth in Spanish papers has averaged
9 since 1981 while the average rate of growth
for the world is about 3.
Papers
Source Thomson Reuters, National Science
Indicators, 1981-2007. Standard version.
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Spanish contribution to the EU 2003-2007
The EU contributed 37 of papers in the world in
the most recent 5 year period. Spain was 5
among the top 10 countries driving EU performance
in same period.
Source Thomson Reuters, National Science
Indicators, 1981-2007. Standard version.
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National Comparisons of Selected Countries
Paper growth in France is just beginning to
plateau while Italy and Spain continue to grow.
Paper Growth, 1981-2007
Source Thomson Reuters, National Science
Indicators, 1981-2007. Standard version.
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National Comparisons of Selected Countries
French share of papers in the world is declining
while Italy and Spain is on the rise. Portugals
share remains relatively flat.
Source Thomson Reuters, National Science
Indicators, 1981-2007. Standard version.
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Countries contributing 1 or more on average to
Total Publications Worldwide, 2003-2007
Source Thomson Scientific, National Science
Indicators, 1981-2007. Standard version.
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The average citation rate of countries in
relation to the world average citation rate
The average citation rate in the world is 4.58 in
this 5 year period. This graphically displays
countries above and below that world rate.
Source Thomson Scientific, National Science
Indicators, 1981-2007. Standard version.
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Average citation rate per paper
Source Thomson Scientific, National Science
Indicators, 1981-2007. Standard version.
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Spain meets or exceeds world average citation
rate (2003-2007) in 10 out of 22 fields
Source Thomson Scientific, National Science
Indicators, 1981-2007. Standard version.
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Comparisons by Total Citations from Essential
Science Indicators
The top countries have been relatively stable but
other countries such as Spain are advancing in
citations.
Source Thomson Reuters, Essential Science
Indicators, 2004 archive 2008-Q1 data
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Growth in Citations
Citations to Spanish papers continue to grow at a
strong rate as papers become widely distributed
globally.
Source Thomson Reuters, National Science
Indicators, 1981-2007. Standard version.
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Percentage of Papers Cited
This graph shows that the percentage of papers
receiving citations and can be considered as a
measure of influence. The percentage of Spanish
papers that are cited has risen strongly over
the 25 year period.
Source Thomson Reuters, National Science
Indicators, 1981-2007. Standard version.
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National Strengths

• These are the top 10 fields as a percentage of
  total Spanish research output.

Source Thomson Reuters, National Science
Indicators, 1981-2007. Standard version.
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How Can I Improve My Journal?

• Active recruitment of high-impact articles by
  courting researchers
• Offering authors better services
• Boosting the journals media profile
• More careful article selection
• -M. Chew, E. V. Villanueva, and M. B. Van Der
  Weyden, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
  100 (3), 142 (2007).

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