Resource Type: Discovery & Analytics Platform

Access Range: Campus Network Only

Access Address: Online Access

JCR is a systematic, objective tool for evaluating leading scholarly journals using quantitative statistics derived from the authoritative Web of Science citation database. It covers 12,000+ journals from 2,000+ publishers across 230+ subject categories in 83 countries/regions, including 9,000+ titles in the Science edition and 3,300+ in the Social Sciences edition.

Who benefits:

Researchers — identify influential, best-fit journals for publication.

Librarians — inform archiving/collection decisions and support faculty recommendations.

Research administrators — assess journal quality of institutional outputs.

Publishers & editors — gauge market impact and review editorial strategies.

Information analysts — conduct bibliometrics-based journal studies.

Attachment: Database User Guide