Emerging Sources Citation Index

Emerging Sources Citation Index
Producer	Clarivate Analytics (Canada and Hong Kong)
History	2015-present
Coverage
Disciplines	Multidisciplinary
Geospatial coverage	Worldwide
Links
Website	http://wokinfo.com/products_tools/multidisciplinary/esci/

The Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) is a citation index produced since 2015 by Thomson Reuters, and now by Clarivate Analytics. According to the publisher, the index includes "peer-reviewed publications of regional importance and in emerging scientific fields".[1]

The ESCI is accessible through the Web of Science, together with Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index.[2][3] Journals in the ESCI are not included in the Journal Citation Reports thus do not receive an impact factor, although they contribute citations to the calculation of other journals' impact factors.[4][5]

Inclusion criteria

To be included in the Emerging Sources Citation Index journals must be:[6]

Peer reviewed
Follow ethical publishing practices
Meet technical requirements
Have English language bibliographic information
Be recommended or requested by a scholarly audience of Web of Science users

Criticism

Jeffrey Beall argued that among the databases produced by Clarivate Analytics, the Emerging Sources Citation Index is the easiest one to get into and that as a result it contains many predatory journals.[7][8]

References

"ESCI Fact Sheet" (PDF). Clarivate Analytics. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
Web of Science platform (2015). "Available databases A to Z". Clarivate Analytics.
Francisco J. Cantu-Ortiz: Research Analytics
"Web of Science Journal Evaluation Process and Selection Criteria". Web of Science Group. 2020-06-25. Retrieved 2020-10-21.
Somoza-Fernández, Marta; Rodríguez-Gairín, Josep-Manuel; Urbano, Cristóbal (2018-02-12). "Journal coverage of the Emerging Sources Citation Index". Learned Publishing. Wiley. 31 (3): 199–204. doi:10.1002/leap.1160. ISSN 0953-1513. S2CID 51610941.
"Emerging Sources Citation Index". Taylor & Francis. Retrieved 22 September 2019.
Beall, Jeffrey (28 April 2016). "The TR Master Journal List is not a Journal Whitelist". Scholarly Open Access. WordPress.com. Archived from the original on 2017-01-09. Retrieved 28 April 2016.
Beall, Jeffrey (28 January 2016). "Bogus Iran-Based Journal Allows Up to 40% Plagiarism". Scholarly Open Access. WordPress.com. Archived from the original on 2016-11-13. Retrieved 19 July 2018.

External links

Official website

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[1] "ESCI Fact Sheet" (PDF). Clarivate Analytics. Retrieved 17 May 2018.

[AtoZ-2] Web of Science platform (2015). "Available databases A to Z". Clarivate Analytics.

[3] Francisco J. Cantu-Ortiz: Research Analytics

[4] "Web of Science Journal Evaluation Process and Selection Criteria". Web of Science Group. 2020-06-25. Retrieved 2020-10-21.

[5] Somoza-Fernández, Marta; Rodríguez-Gairín, Josep-Manuel; Urbano, Cristóbal (2018-02-12). "Journal coverage of the Emerging Sources Citation Index". Learned Publishing. Wiley. 31 (3): 199–204. doi:10.1002/leap.1160. ISSN 0953-1513. S2CID 51610941.

[6] "Emerging Sources Citation Index". Taylor & Francis. Retrieved 22 September 2019.

[Beall1-7] Beall, Jeffrey (28 April 2016). "The TR Master Journal List is not a Journal Whitelist". Scholarly Open Access. WordPress.com. Archived from the original on 2017-01-09. Retrieved 28 April 2016.

[Beall12-8] Beall, Jeffrey (28 January 2016). "Bogus Iran-Based Journal Allows Up to 40% Plagiarism". Scholarly Open Access. WordPress.com. Archived from the original on 2016-11-13. Retrieved 19 July 2018.