The Local Journal Utilization Report
The Local Journal Utilization Report (LJUR) is a statistical database listing
the frequency with which an institution's researchers publish in journals indexed
in Web
of Science, and the frequency with which they cite journals and other works
(theses, government reports, etc.) in their publications. These frequencies are
calculated annually. Each article from approximately 8,500 journals indexed by
Web of Science is searched for author affiliation. If any of the authors list
North Carolina State University as their address, their article is included in
the NCSU LJUR data.
The LJUR Cited data is the number of times that articles with one or more NCSU
authors have cited a journal in their references. The LJUR Source data is the
number of times that articles with one or more NCSU authors have been published
in journals that have been indexed in Web of Science. While only journals indexed
in Web of Science will show up in the LJUR Source field, both journals
indexed and not indexed by Web of Science will show up in the LJUR Cited
field, but only when they are cited in articles that are indexed by Web of
Science.
The NCSU Libraries uses its LJUR to provide an estimate of the importance of
research journals to the NCSU community. When listing journals for serials review,
The NCSU Libraries includes the data from the last five available years of the
LJUR in two categories: LJUR Cited and LJUR Source. Along with price data and
other local holdings, the LJUR data helps the community to assess the importance
of specific journals to NCSU research.
Web of Science provides access to a multidisciplinary collection of
approximately 8,700 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in
the world. The LJUR gives the NCSU community the unique ability to see quantitative
data about their research as it is reported in Web of Science. With the LJUR,
a local perspective on research journals is available in terms of how often NCSU
authors cite these journals and how often they publish in them.
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