Emerging Sources Citation Index

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Emerging Sources Citation Index
Producer Clarivate
History2015–present
Coverage
DisciplinesMultidisciplinary
Geospatial coverageWorldwide
Links
Website clarivate.com/webofsciencegroup/solutions/webofscience-esci/

The Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) is a citation index produced since 2015 by Thomson Reuters and now by Clarivate. According to the publisher, the index includes "peer-reviewed publications of regional importance and in emerging scientific fields". [1]

Contents

The ESCI is accessible through the Web of Science, together with other Clarivate indexes. [2] [3] As of June 2021, all journals indexed in ESCI are also included in the Journal Citation Reports. While these journals still did not receive an impact factor until the next year, they did contribute citations to the calculation of other journals' impact factors. [4] [5] In July 2022, Clarivate announced that journals in the ESCI obtain an impact factor effective from JCR Year 2022 first released in June 2023. [6]

Inclusion criteria

To be included in the ESCI, journals must be: [7]

Criticism

Jeffrey Beall argued that among the databases produced by Clarivate, the ESCI is the easiest one to get into and that as a result it contains many predatory journals. [8] [9]

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References

  1. "ESCI Fact Sheet" (PDF). Clarivate. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
  2. Web of Science platform (2015). "Available databases A to Z". Clarivate.
  3. Francisco J. Cantu-Ortiz: Research Analytics
  4. "Web of Science Journal Evaluation Process and Selection Criteria". Web of Science Group. 2020-06-25. Retrieved 2020-10-21.
  5. Somoza-Fernández, Marta; Rodríguez-Gairín, Josep-Manuel; Urbano, Cristóbal (2018-02-12). "Journal coverage of the Emerging Sources Citation Index". Learned Publishing . 31 (3): 199–204. doi: 10.1002/leap.1160 . S2CID   51610941.
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  9. Beall, Jeffrey (28 January 2016). "Bogus Iran-Based Journal Allows Up to 40% Plagiarism". Scholarly Open Access. WordPress.com. Archived from the original on 2016-11-13. Retrieved 19 July 2018.