The purpose of this study is to evaluate the Japanese the CD-ROM edition of the Journal Citation Reports journals in bibliometric parameters such as impact fac-(JCR) for the 1994 volume of the Science Citation Index tors (IFs), mean IFs from citing and cited journals, and (SCI), which indexed about 3400 science journals that self-citing and self-cited rates. The data consists of 128 year.
Japanese journals indexed in the 1994 Journal Citation
There were approximately 13,883 scientific and tech-Reports. The results note that only 15 journals, with a wide variation of self-citing and self-cited rates, have nological serials in Japan according to the Directory of obtained a current impact higher than 1.00. The results (Kobayashi et al., 1994).
Japanese Scientific Periodicals
also note that the Japanese journals have not achieved a
The English-language journals took only 6.9% (958) of high international reputation, although some of the citing all the serial titles. JCR, published by the Institute for journals are the top most-cited journals identified by Scientific Information (ISI) in Philadelphia, indexed 97 Garfield as a small core of journals worldwide.
English-language Japanese journals and 31 Japanese-language journals in the year 1994. Although these journals