Interesting..

Hi,

It would be possible by doing a manual work. You'll have to apply the formula employed by Clarivate Analytics to calculate the impact factors of journals. That is, impact factor must be calcutated firstly, then, organize journals by quartiles. Regards,

Carlos.

Dear Carlos and Nagendra,

Thank you both for your answer. Nonetheless, the formula must be applied manually to know which quartiles belong each journal? Have anyone done this work already? Maybe in Communication...

Angel,

that's a hard work! The formula will stablesh the citation window of 2, 3 or 5 years of coverage. The main variables for IF is the number of documents published in a time period and the number of citations those documents have received. I'm not clear wheather Clarivate considers the citations made to editorial materials, book reviews, etc at the time to calculate IF. By the way, I calculated the impact factor of my journal using Google Scholar citations, and it was really hard the data cleaning process. In your case, the most difficult is the amount of journals, since you're focusing on a subject category.

If you can read in Spanish, see the following paper: Article Análisis de la revista Bibliotecas: Anales de Investigación

Dear Carlos,

Thank you for sharing the article. Indeed, we are really interested in categorizing the ESCI journal related to Communication. In case someone has done it in other subjects as education, engineering, etc., will be amazing if they can share it, or even extend the "script" among academics.

Hi Angel. Clarivate Analytics product "Emerging Sources Citation Index" (ECSI) is not an index based on a quantitative citation method. To enter this index, the journal should have a review of formal factors (abstracting, compliance with standards, reviewers, etc.). Many of the journals that make up the ECSI do not even have citations in journals of the Journal Citation Index (Core Collection), but what is sought is that they begin to index their articles in the WoS search engines so as not to be relegated to the big ones.

Of course, it is always good to make a ranking of the ECSI journals in order to classify them in quartiles (or percentiles). This would be useful both for the editors of the journals and for the authors.

But, given the novelty of this "index", it would be very difficult to calculate the impact factor and immediacy. What I do believe can be done is to classify them according to their appointments received in a period of 3 years within the WoS.

Hi,

This project of ranking ESCI journals is a work of some software. One has to observe the citations these journals received, and rank them in descending order of citations. Why not wait for Clarivate Analytics to do the job ? They have the means and the methods....

Dear Avishag Gordon

Thank you for your answer. Actually, you are right, we could wait until Clarivate Analytics do it. However, in Media Studies, the difference between a Q1 and a Q4 journal in ESCI might help us to focus on those with greater quality. I will keep searching in case someone have done it already.

Dear Angel Torres-Toukoumidis ,

in my journal will be published a paper in which a ranking of ESCI journals on Library and Information Science is performed. Here is the preprint:

http://www.rafaelrepiso.com/2018/09/03/impacto-de-las-revistas-emergentes-de-bibliotecologia-y-ciencia-de-la-informacion-en-web-of-science-2017/

Dear Angel,

Sorry I a have not any asnwer but a question related to this problem you started to ask. Why to evaluate add Impact Factors to ESCI journals while this impact will not be confirmed by any database (Thompson Reuters or Scopus) ?

There are many other journal "factors" on the market, but their importance is very marginal…. so producing the list of ESCI journal with IF even using suitable and responsible methodology means almost "nothing" without stamp of "very important organsation"

Dear Beata Ślusarczyk

Organizing Emerging Source Citation Index journals through quartiles provide many advantages:

1. Funding. Justifying the publication of partial results in Q1 is not the same that publishing in Q4

2. Partnering other journals. If you are an editor of ESCI journal you want to partner the best in this index. Normally Scopus journals don't partner with ESCI journals

3. Regional academic development. At least in Latinamerica will be great for researcher to know which countries and which journals have better IF.

4. Transparency.

Best Regards.

Thank you, but does Thomson Reuters organise ESCI in quartiles ?

Quite interesting discussion, thank you Angel for starting as I am editor of journal Indexed in Scopus and ESCI.

I agree with Beata that even someone would organise the journals in quartiles, without official confirmation this work will have limited value to funding and other aims you mentioned.

Dear Beata Ślusarczyk

First of all, ESCI is not Thompson Reuters is Clarivate Analytics. Second, JCR is organized in quartiles, ESCI is not, that why I was asking that information :). Thank you

Dear Sebastian Kot

Its great you agree with Beata Ślusarczyk

Nonetheless, every context is different. I understand that might be quite worthless for you to have this information. However, in mine it will be great to have this information available for the reasons I mentioned. Actually, I continued my research and found deciles not quartiles for communication and education. Check it out: https://www.revistacomunicar.com/index.php?contenido=ranking-revistas-esci

Best regards and thank you for your help.

Now your point of view is clear. Great work with your research, it is quite interesting to me.

Greetings

I'm not sure it's possible, but the idea is very good

Dear Norge,

Thank you for your support.

i think you cant add it manually because the institution is calculated through there data

Interesting..