“You can quickly understand a journal’s role within and influence upon the global research community by exploring a rich array of citation metrics, including the Journal Impact Factor™ (JIF), alongside descriptive data about a journal’s open access content and contributing authors.” (From the Clarivate webpages)

Watch a video introduction to Journal Citation Reports.

• 1. Go to LibrarySearch 
     
     
  2. Log in using your CCCU username and password. If you are away from campus, or connecting with your own device over Wi-Fi, you will need to include @canterbury.ac.uk after your CCCU username.
     
     
  3. Select Find Databases, then click on J, finally click on the link to Journal Citation Reports to open it in a new tab.

Go to LibrarySearch and log in. You can get to LibrarySearch via the Library and Learning Resources web pages or the student website home page. On the LibrarySearch home page, click on ‘Find e-journals’ and go to ‘J’ in the alphabetical list. Find ‘Journal Citation Reports’ and click on it. This should open the Journal Citation Reports homepage.

In the search box, type in the name of the journal you’re interested in. A drop-down list of selected journals should appear. Click on the one you want to view. This should bring up the journal profile page.

On this page you can find lots of information about the journal, including the journal impact factor, key indicators and contributions by country and organisation. The default is the current year, but you can also view the previous year or all years.

The video below shows how to find a journal’s impact factor using Journal Citation Reports

Choose a journal in your subject area and try to find its impact factor.

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