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Related Journals

Related Journals have cited and citing relationships with the journal identified at the top of the page. The relatedness (R) values derive from a calculation* that takes into account:

  • The number of citations from the citing journal to the cited journal
  • The total number of articles in the related journal
  • The total number of citations from the citing journal

The higher the first factor is in relation to the other two, the stronger the relationship between the two journals.

Two values are given in the Relatedness (R) column:

journal to j Citations from current journal to Related Journal (j)
j to journal Citations from Related Journal (j) to current journal

The higher of these two values appears in the Rmax column. Journals in the table are ranked according to the Rmax value. Journals at the top of the table are more likely to have a strong subject connection to the journal identified at the top of the page than journals at the bottom of the table.


Journals Related to Subject Category

The same calculation* is applied to measure the relatedness of journals to a subject category. This calculation takes into account:

  • The number of citations from journals in the subject category to the related journal.
  • The total number of articles in the related journal.
  • The total number of citations from journals in the subject category.
*The calculation is based on research reported in Pudovkin AI and Garfield E (2002). "Algorithmic procedure for finding semantically related journals." Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 53 (13) 1113-1119.

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Related Journals data are available only for journals that have been cited more than 100 times. Also, R values per journal pair are calculated only if each journal cites the other at least two times (that is, citing-cited).


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