As most will know, when we talk about major 'recognized' index databases and their owners, we hear the letters and words SJR, Scopus, and ISI, which in our book, we discuss at length the history and current status of these indices.
Honestly, one of the most confusing historically is what is 'ISI' and who owns it. To help understand where this post is going, we extracted the following from our handbook:
Clarivate/ISI
In other disciplines, indexes maintained by Clarivate Analytics’ the Web of Science Group or the older name ‘Web of Knowledge’ [186], are frequently mentioned. However, over the years, these indexes have changed names and this gets rather confusing when using/discussing their services. An example of this is Clarivate Analytics’ Web of Science (WoS) which is a leading scientific citation search and analytical information platform [26], which was previously the Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters [177]. In the fall of 2020, Clarivate Analytics announced that it was moving toward a future that calculated the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) based on the date of electronic publication and not the date of print publication. Moreover, according to the WoS website, WoS reviews 3,000 - 4,000 journals each year for inclusion into WoS, with only 10 - 12% being selected [178].
Once again, over the past few years, what this service is called has become confusing. Even though Clarivate Analytics acquired the ISI (Institute for Scientific Information) name in 2016, and changed the name, they have gone back to the old name of ISI and re-established ISI as part of its Scientific and Academic Research group [179].
Eugene Garfield founded the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) in 1960 [180, 254], which was acquired by Thomson Scientific & Healthcare in 1992 and became known as Thomson ISI [181]. It then became part of the Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters [182]. ISI offered bibliographic database services, whose specialty was citation indexing and analysis [183], a field pioneered by Garfield. It maintained citation databases covering thousands of academic journals, including a continuation of its longtime print-based indexing service, the Science Citation Index (SCI) [184], as well as the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) [185], and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) [186], All of these are available via ISI's Web of Knowledge database service [186].
Many universities, however, refer to Clarivate’s index database simply as ‘ISI.’ The Journal Citation Report (JCR) is part of this portal, which is a database that ranks journals by publications and citations. The Science Citation Index (SCI) is also part of this portal, and it is a bibliographic database. Journal ranking can be found here.
Then who is the International Scientific Indexing (ISI) in the UAE?
Good question. Let's take a look.
According to their web site they added 5,000 journals to their database 'last year'. It seems their focus is on 'Open Access' journals and conference proceedings. However, although you can submit your journal to their database and you can have a link to it, it will not be 'indexed' and available to their search engine until after you pay them a $30 fee.
Now here is where things get more interesting. If you want them to 'calculate' the impact factor for your journal based on International Citation Report (ICR) (not to be confused with Clarivate's ISI Journal Citation Report-JCR) you need to pay $100 per journal. However, if you want to pay both fees at the same time you get a $30 dollar discount. Therefore, you only pay $100 to get your journal indexed and searchable in their database as well as receiving some form of journal Impact Factor certificate created for the year 2019-20.
Ok. Sounds great and very entrepreneurial, but we wonder who is recognizing this 'ISI' 'ICR' impact factor? They also have a very convenient PayPal link as also state they do all these services in a very prompt manner.
Bottom line:
I guess if your faculty says they accept ISI indexed journals for your paper, it might be a good idea to clarify which ISI they are referring to.
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