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17-657: According to the Journal Citation Reports , the journal had a 2018 impact factor of 2.297, ranking it 2nd out of 18 journals in the category "Ethnic Studies" and 4th out of 29 journals in the category "Demography". It was previously called New Community . It was first published in 1971 as the quarterly journal of the Community Relations Commission, predecessor of the U.K.’s Commission for Racial Equality. Sheila Patterson edited New Community from 1971 until 1988 when Malcolm Cross

34-418: A data analysis tool for libraries to estimate the actual cost and value of their subscriptions. The tool reduces information asymmetry in negotiations over subscriptions with publishers: in its paid tailored version, it allows to merge Unpaywall data about open access status and expected evolution in 5 years, article processing charges , usage statistics and the libraries' own parameters (such as

51-868: A part of the Science Citation Index . Currently, the JCR , as a distinct service, is based on citations compiled from the Science Citation Index Expanded and the Social Sciences Citation Index . As of the 2023 edition, journals from the Arts and Humanities Citation Index and the Emerging Sources Citation Index have also been included. The information given for each journal includes: There are separate editions for

68-437: Is a browser extension which finds legal free versions of (paywalled) scholarly articles. In July 2018, Unpaywall was reported to provide free access to 20 million articles, which accounts for about 47% of the articles that people search for with Unpaywall. As of 2024, Unpaywall claims to provide access to 49 million free articles. It further states that "Unpaywall users read 52% of research papers for free". In June 2017, it

85-647: Is a nonprofit organization that creates and distributes tools and services for libraries, institutions and researchers. The organization follows open practices with their data (to the extent allowed by providers' terms of service), code, and governance. OurResearch is funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation , the National Science Foundation , and Arcadia Fund . ImpactStory is the first open source , web-based tool released by OurResearch . It provides altmetrics to help researchers measure

102-414: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . See tips for writing articles about academic journals . Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page . This article about a journal on ethnicity , ethnology or ethnic studies is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . See tips for writing articles about academic journals . Further suggestions might be found on

119-461: Is an open catalog of scholarly papers, authors, institutions, and more. OpenAlex launched in January 2022 with a free API and data snapshot. The purpose of OpenAlex is to catalog publication sources, author information, and research topics. It also shows connections between these data points to provide a comprehensive, interlinked view of the global research system. It is considered an alternative to

136-447: Is common, ImpactStory would tell that the repository is in the 95th percentile of all GitHub repositories created that year. The metrics provided by ImpactStory can be used by researchers who want to know how many times their work has been downloaded and shared, and also research funders who are interested in the impact of research beyond only considering citations to journal articles. Unpaywall, begun as an interface for oaDOI.org ,

153-454: The article's talk page . Journal Citation Reports Journal Citation Reports ( JCR ) is an annual publication by Clarivate . It has been integrated with the Web of Science and is accessed from the Web of Science Core Collection . It provides information about academic journals in the natural and social sciences , including impact factors . JCR was originally published as

170-537: The cost of ILL ) to calculate various indicators including the cost effectiveness or net cost per use of a current or planned subscription (or lack thereof). Unpaywall Journals was used in 2020 by the SUNY Libraries Consortium to assist in the cancellation of their big deal with Elsevier , which was replaced by a subscription to 248 titles, allowing expected savings of 50–70% over the baseline, or 5 to 7 million dollars per year. OpenAlex

187-456: The detailed tables on microfiche . In general, various universities, administrative centers and ministries in charge of higher education make their evaluations of university professors and other researchers on the number and quality of articles published in journals indexed in the JCR. In recent years, it has often been released in mid-June. The 2017 Journal Citation Reports , based on 2016 data,

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204-408: The impacts of their research outputs including journal articles, blog posts , datasets, and software. This aims to change the focus of the scholarly reward system to value and encourage web-native scholarship. It provides context to its metrics so that they are meaningful without knowledge of the specific dataset: for example, instead of letting the reader guess whether having five forks on GitHub

221-445: The last two years in a given journal, as indexed by Clarivate's Web of Science . As a journal-level metric , it is frequently used as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal within its field; journals with higher impact factor values are given the status of being more important, or carry more prestige in their respective fields, than those with lower values. Unpaywall OurResearch , formerly known as ImpactStory ,

238-519: The sciences and the social sciences; the 2013 science edition includes 8,411 journals, and the 2012 social science edition contains 3,016 titles. The issue for each year is published the following year after the citations for the year have been published and the information processed. The publication is available online ( JCR on the Web ), or in CD format ( JCR on CD-ROM ); it was originally published in print, with

255-548: Was appointed editor. In 1994 the journal was given a comparative European focus and was re-launched in 1998 with an international editorial board under its current title. In 2000 JEMS was relocated to the Centre for Migration Research at the University of Sussex when first Russell King (from 2001), and subsequently Paul Statham (from 2014), became editors. This article about a journal on politics or political science

272-504: Was integrated into Web of Science , and in July 2018, Elsevier announced plans the same month to integrate the service into the Scopus search engine. In 2019, GetTheResearch.org was announced as a search engine for open access content found by Unpaywall, with machine learning features to facilitate discoverability . Unsub, previously Unpaywall Journals, was launched in 2019 as

289-492: Was released on June 14, 2017. In April 2020, Journal Citation Reports included a beta for open access data, which uses Unpaywall data. It officially left the beta phase with the release of the 2020 JCR in June 2020. The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a scientometric index calculated by Clarivate that reflects the yearly mean number of citations of articles published in

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