Re: Exclusion JCR 2004

I asked exactly the same question last year to the JCR people and this is
their reply:


"World Journal of Gastroenterology was dropped from coverage in 2004 because
of its extremely high self-citation rate."



Hope this helps

Aida

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Aida Farha
Reference Librarian
Saab Medical Library
American University of Beirut
Beirut - LEBANON




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vicenç Allué" <vicenc.allue-6pdOhT+L054@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <MEDLIB-L-0lvw86wZMd8f6iAq40b6vDevRRvlBcP1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 6:09 PM
Subject: Exclusion JCR 2004


> Hi Medlibbers
> A patron of our service is interested to know why an specific journal of
Gastroenterology: "World Journal of Gastroenterology" was in ranking of
Journal Citation Reports in 2003 but does not apperas in JCR 2004. The
articles seems to be with the same quality but we don't find any reason
about it, except this is a digital journal
> Anybody has a reason for this exclusion
> Thanks in advance
> Vincent
>