Abstract
Analysis of journal content characteristics and metrics reported in the Clarivate Analytics Journal Citation Reports and Web of Science Core Collection Agricultural Engineering categories
Highlights
The objectives are: (1) to describe the characteristics of the 13 journals based on type of publisher, focus of the journal, research topics covered in each journal, total annual articles published and other factors; (2) compare the relative impact of the 13 journals as a function of 2017 Journal Citation Reports (JCR) Journal Impact Factor (JIF), 5-year JIF and total cites metrics, as well as long-term JIF trends; (3) describe long-term publication trends among the 13 journals as well as national, institutional publication and other trends based on data reported in the Web of Science (WoS) CC Agricultural Engineering (AE) category; and (4) discuss the need for possible revisions to the current JCR and WoS CC AE categories to more accurately reflect the impact of comprehensive AE engineering journals
Note: a The distribution of the top 50 cited articles shown here is based on search (Appendix A) results that were obtained on June 3, 2018 for 58,750 articles indexed in the WoS CC AE category for the 13 journals listed in Table 1. bThe topics represent subjective groupings based on information in the article titles, abstracts and/or text
The review of the JCR AE and WoS CC AE journal categories reveals dichotomies per the journals currently indexed as AE journals
Summary
Including water technologies used by pre-Roman cultures[1], irrigation systems developed in Mesopotamia[2] and Mesoamerica[3], the use of channels, tunnels and aqueducts in Etruscan[4] and Roman[5] cultures, agricultural terraces in Mesoamerica[6] and wooden wheat harvesting machines used in the Roman Empire[7]. The objectives are: (1) to describe the characteristics of the 13 journals based on type of publisher, focus of the journal (comprehensive versus specialty), research topics covered in each journal, total annual articles published and other factors; (2) compare the relative impact of the 13 journals as a function of 2017 JCR JIF, 5-year JIF and total cites metrics, as well as long-term JIF trends; (3) describe long-term publication trends among the 13 journals as well as national, institutional publication and other trends based on data reported in the WoS CC AE category; and (4) discuss the need for possible revisions to the current JCR and WoS CC AE categories to more accurately reflect the impact of comprehensive AE engineering journals. JIF data based on the 2018 JCR AE journals category are reported in Appendix C
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