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EMPR 370: Human Resource Analytics

About JCR

Known as JCR, the database provides critical evaluation of Social Sciences journals based on citation data, or how often an article is referenced by researchers. JCR is part of the Web of Knowledge/Social Science Citation Index databases.

By sorting by Journal Impact Factor (JIF) using Journal Citation Reports (JCR) you can determine which journals in a discipline are making the greatest contribution to the publishing history of an idea by measuring citation frequencies.

There was recently a webpage overhaul so the interface is quite different. The new search interface has been simplified and looks like this:

Here is an example of just a fraction of the content displayed for one of the top rated journals included in JCR.