How to find journals with Impact Factor, part 2: step-by-step instruction

How to find journals with
impact factor at the
Web of Science platform
Sergey Paramonov, PhD
Darya Bukhtoyarova
Customer Education Specialists
Scientific & Scholarly Research

Access Web of Science
webofscience.com

Choose the database:
WEB OF SCIENCE CORE COLLECTION

Type your query (2-3 keywords in English)
Then press Search

Choose the subject category
Then press Refine

Go to Publication Years on the Refine
Results panel
To see all years, choose
more options / values…

Choose publication dates relevant to you
Use Refine button to see selected
years only.
Use Exclude button to see
everything except selected years.

Go to Source Titles on the Refine Results
panel
To see the entire list,
choose
more options / values…

Finding journals for publishing your research
As a general rule, the first 5-10 journals
in the list will be most similar in scope
to your request.
Write these titles down or save them
on your computer.

Finding impact factor of a journal in WEB OF
SCIENCE (1)
Click on the title of any
article from the journal of
interest.

SCIENCE (2)
In full record, you will see the bibliographic
information about the article and the journal.
If the journal has an impact factor, you will
see the View Journal Information link.
If you do not see this link, the journal does
not have an impact factor.

SCIENCE (3)

SCIENCE (4)
In the full record, find the Journal
Information section. If the journal has an
impact factor, you will see the Journal
Citation Reports link underneath.
If you do not see this link, the journal does
not have an impact factor.

SCIENCE (5)
You will see the
latest impact factor
for this journal on the
graph and
underneath it.
Write down or save
this information for
the journal of your
interest.

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To find a journal in Web
of Science, go to the
Search page
Select the Publication Name
field. Start typing the journal title
– you will see suggested options
appearing. Select the journal you
need and press Search.

Finding impact factor of a journal in Journal
Citation Reports (1)

Choose the JCR Science Edition or JCR Social Sciences
Edition index, depending your journal of interest.
Click Search for a specific journal on the right.

Type the full title of the
journal and click
Search

You will see the latest
impact factor in the table.
Write down or save this
number for your journal of
interest.

Finding journals by subject category (1)
Choose the JCR Science Edition or JCR Social Sciences
Edition index, depending your journal of interest.
Click View a group of journals by on the right and choose
the Subject Category option.

Choose the subject
category you need and
click Submit

Under Sort by, choose
Impact Factor and
click Sort Again

To find articles of a journal
from this list, perform a
search in Web of Science, as
described in slide 16.

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