What is the difference between an ISI journal and the Journals which are listed in the WEB OF SCIENCE: SCIENCE CITATION INDEX EXPANDED? Some journals are an ISI journal but cannot be found in the list of Web of Science
ISI Thomson indexed journals are same with the ones indexed by SCI, SCI-E, SSCI, ESCI, or other ones indicated by ISI Thomson. You can reach to all papers in this index over the Web of Science platform. You can check a journal over Master Journal list (http://ip-science.thomsonreuters.com/mjl/) to see which index(es) it was indexed by. On the other hand, unfortunately there are some indexes which use different names but their acronyms are ISI. I think these are for making researchers to think that their journals are indexed under ISI Thomson but it is not same. So, be careful for such journals. If the journal is not shown under the Master Journal List, it is not exactly in the ISI Thomson. You can also see that ISI Thomson journals generally impact factor measure on their pages to inform audience about effectiveness of the journal. But again, some journals indicate the same name impact factor over their page, but they are not again indexed under ISI Thomson. Just always check over the Master Journal List (:
ISI Thomson indexed journals are same with the ones indexed by SCI, SCI-E, SSCI, ESCI, or other ones indicated by ISI Thomson. You can reach to all papers in this index over the Web of Science platform. You can check a journal over Master Journal list (http://ip-science.thomsonreuters.com/mjl/) to see which index(es) it was indexed by. On the other hand, unfortunately there are some indexes which use different names but their acronyms are ISI. I think these are for making researchers to think that their journals are indexed under ISI Thomson but it is not same. So, be careful for such journals. If the journal is not shown under the Master Journal List, it is not exactly in the ISI Thomson. You can also see that ISI Thomson journals generally impact factor measure on their pages to inform audience about effectiveness of the journal. But again, some journals indicate the same name impact factor over their page, but they are not again indexed under ISI Thomson. Just always check over the Master Journal List (:
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Journals indexed within SCIE are listed in the JCR, that means that these journals possess an impact factor.
Utku Köse, thank you for your answer which clarify this issue very well.
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