FULL RECORD PAGE -- Clicking on a journal from the Journal Summary List page will bring you to the Full Record page. This page contains the full record information for a single journal. The top frame of the page displays the data for the current journal; the bottom frame displays expanded details of the data contained in the top frame. The linked items in the table in the top frame jump to the corresponding details in the bottom frame. Note the "Cited Journal" and "Citing Journal" buttons below.

Here are some brief definitions for the data on the Full Record page. More complete details are contained in the JCR Web application and in its Help.

Total Cites: The total number of times that the journal has been cited by all journals included in the ISI database within the current product year.

Impact Factor: The measure of the frequency with which the "average article" in a journal has been cited in a particular year. The impact factor will help you evaluate a journal’s relative importance, especially when you compare it to others in the same field. It is calculated by dividing the number of current citations to articles published in the two previous years by the total number of articles published in the two previous years.

Immediacy Index: The measure of how quickly the "average article" in a journal is cited. The Immediacy Index will tell you how often articles published in a journal are cited within the same year. It is calculated by dividing the number of citations to articles published in a given year by the number of articles published in that year.

Articles: The number of articles published in each journal in the current product year.

Cited Half-Life: The number of publication years from the current year which account for 50% of current citations received. This figure helps you evaluate the age of the majority of cited articles published in a journal.

Citing Half-Life: The number of publication years from the current year that account for 50% of the current citations published by a journal in its article references. This figure helps you evaluate the age of the majority of articles referenced by a journal.