Similar journals in the Journal Browser: how does it work?

What are similar journals in the Journal Browser?

When you click on a journal’s title in the WUR Journal Browser, you’ll see journals that are similar to that journal based on co-citations.

The co-occurrence of two journals in the references of an article (i.e. a co-citation of these two journals)is a measure for similarity between these two journals. You can use these co-cited journals as suggestions for journals that may share topics and research fields.

The WUR Journal Browser shows the five most similar (i.e., most co-cited) journals. Click on 'More info on similar journals' to find the 25 most similar journals. For each journal, only journals with 10 or more co-citations are shown.

What do the citation scores mean?

The journals are presented in a table. The numbers in the table represent the number of co-citations of each journal with the journal in the table’s title. By default, co-cited journals are sorted based upon an analysis of the references in all WUR articles published in the last 10 years. By selection of one of the columns ASG, AFSG, ESG, PSG or SSG it is possible to sort the co-cited journals in articles published in this period onwards by any of these sciences groups.

About the inventory of co-cited journals

The references used to count the number of co-citations for combinations of journals come from articles that were published by WUR staff in the last 10 years in journals covered by Web of Science. Using these references, WUR Library creates an inventory of journals cited by WUR staff, to calculate similarities between journals. In this inventory only co-occurrences of journals are counted. These co-cited journals, however, do not necessarily have to be covered by Web of Science. The inventory of co-cited journals is updated annually.

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