Thomson
Scientific, a leading provider of information solutions to the worldwide
research and business communities, today announced that 162 regional social
science journals have been added to Web of Science. The newly identified
collection contains journals that typically target a regional rather than
international audience by approaching subjects from a local perspective or
focusing on particular topics of regional interest.
For more than two years, Thomson Scientific has reviewed thousands of
regional journals in all areas of science, social science and arts and
humanities. Although selection criteria for a regional journal are
fundamentally the same as for an international journal, the importance of
the regional journal is measured in terms of the specificity of its content
rather than in its citation impact. The recently added regional Social
Science journals include 49 titles from the Asia-Pacific region and 91 from
the European Union.
"As the global distribution of Web of Science expands into virtually
every region on earth, the importance of regional scholarship to our
emerging regional user community also grows," said Jim Testa, senior
director, editorial development and publisher relations at Thomson
Scientific. "We hope to be instrumental in expanding the audience for these
journals and bringing attention to their scholarship."
Throughout 2008, Thomson Scientific will expand the current collection
of journals to include a more diverse coverage of regional literature. All
journals added to the Web of Science will go through a rigorous selection
process. Regional journals, specifically, must be publishing on time, have
English-language bibliographic information (title, abstract, keywords), and
cited references must be in the Roman alphabet.
"The quality of each of these newly added journals is on the level the
world has come to expect from the Web of Science," said Testa.
Thomson Scientific
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SOURCE Thomson Scientific
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