Hi.,

The ISI server provides indexing of major international journals and proceedings. ... The purpose is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals.

Scientific Indexing Services (SIS) was founded by renowned scientists. A group of 70 scientist from various countries in different disciplines are started SIS with specific objective of providing quality information to the researcher. SIS offering academic database services to researcher.

The Global Impact Factor ® (GIF) provides quantitative and qualitative tool for ranking, evaluating and categorizing the journals for academic evaluation and excellence. ... Inclusion in our database through which all journals can be registered, not just those deemed appropriate by an arbitrary group of individuals.

In general, Scopus provides a higher citation count than ISI, both in the Sciences and in the Social Sciences and Humanities. ... Scopus appears to have a much broader journal coverage for the Social Sciences and Humanities than ISI and hence provides a fairer comparison.

C K Gomathy thanks

Journal of Indexing is also an important factor to abstract the article in any prestigious International Library

Actually an international prestigious journal should contain both JOI & high IF

quality .

Yes, there are differences between all ISI, SIS and GIF.

For publication in any magazine this depends on the policy, laws and instructions of the countries, as we find that some countries encourage local publishing and others encourage global publishing

I think that global publishing is better and here we need protection from fake magazines

My greetings

Folow Dr. نبراس طه خماس .

Right piece of information by Dr. Gomathy.

Best,

AK

Hello

I would like to know if is the International Scientific Indexing (ISI) database is a reliable database?

Dear Mohammed Ismael Rushdi and David Pérez-Jorge ,

One needs to be very careful in this matter. It is quite common to talk about ISI indexed journals. However when one talks about this be aware that:

International Scientific Indexing (ISI) is a bogus impact factor:

https://isindexing.com/isi/index.php

It is misleadingly referring to the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) that use to provide indexing of major international journals and often referred to as ISI impact factor. It is nowadays the well-known Science Citation Index (SCI) that is provided by Clarivate. To make things even more complicated…Clarivate reinstated the name ISI “ISI is the ‘university’ of Web of Science Group at Clarivate Analytics”. So the impact factor linked to Web of Science was originally produced by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) and used to be the Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters (currently maintained by Clarivate Analytics).

The same is true for Scientific Indexing Services (SIS) and Global Impact Factor (GIF) both fake and virtually meaningless metrics. By the way another notorious one is Citefactor, that refers to the well-established CiteScore as developed by Scopus. All are mentioned as fake metrics: https://beallslist.net/misleading-metrics/

For more info about the only genuine impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_factor

And a little bit more about fake impact factors:

Jalalian, M. (2015). The story of fake impact factor companies and how we detected them. Electronic physician, 7(2), 1069.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4477767/

Gutierrez, F. R., Beall, J., & Forero, D. A. (2015). Spurious alternative impact factors: The scale of the problem from an academic perspective. Bioessays, 37(5), 474-476.

Hope this helps to keep the discussion clear.

Best regards.

Dear Rob Keller thank you for your clear response.

Best regards.

Have a nice Christmas

Reading comments to understand the issue

https://isindexing.com/

The ISI server provides indexing of major international journals and proceedings. ... The purpose is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals.

Scientific Indexing Services (SIS) was founded by renowned scientists. A group of 70 scientists from various countries in different disciplines is started SIS with the specific objective of providing quality information to the researcher. SIS offering academic database services to the researcher.

The Global Impact Factor ® (GIF) provides quantitative and qualitative tools for ranking, evaluating, and categorizing the journals for academic evaluation and excellence. ... Inclusion in our database through which all journals can be registered, not just those deemed appropriate by an arbitrary group of individuals.

In general, Scopus provides a higher citation count than ISI, both in the Sciences and in the Social Sciences and Humanities. ... Scopus appears to have a much broader journal coverage for the Social Sciences and Humanities than ISI and hence provides a fairer comparison.

Dear Suhad Mohammed and Isam Alkhalifawi

I urge you to read earlier replies here. In my earlier reply on December 24th 2019 you can read that you refer to fake metrics (often linked to predatory journals). One need to disregard these so-called misleading metrics: https://beallslist.net/misleading-metrics/

You can check for real impact factor journals here: https://mjl.clarivate.com/home if indexed in SCIE/SSCI then you are dealing with a journal with a genuine impact factor.

Best regards.

Thanks, Rob. We need to stay on the safe side always by examining carefully the journals that are using different indices. The first step that we need to undertake is to use Beall's list of predatory journals, publishers, and misleading metrics. Even if the legitimate metrics appear in the journal, however, it is very important to see if the metric is transparent. If not, better, you do not need to submit your paper to the journal.

International Scientific Indexing (ISI) is an imitation of ISI (The Institute for Scientific Information) was founded by Dr. Eugene Garfield in USA.