All journals submitted to the core Web of Science databases will be evaluated by the following criteria.

• Whether the journal follows a proper peer review process?
• Whether the journal follows ethical publishing practices?
• Whether the journal meets technical requirements?
• The journal has good English language bibliographic information or not?
• Whether the journal recommended or requested by a scholarly audience of Web of Science users.

If the journal passed the evaluation in a successful way it will be indexed in the ESCI while undergoing more in-depth editorial review.