OS Members, the latest Journal Citation Reports™, released by Clarivate in late June 2023, features Journal of Orthoptera Research (JOR), the official journal of the Orthopterists’ Society amongst the scholarly titles making use of the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) citation metric by Web of Science (WoS).
The 2022 JIF score, meant to reflect the times 2022 publications indexed by WoS have cited research and review articles published in JOR in 2020 and 2021, currently stands at 0.8. For the time being, Clarivate postpones the assignment of quartiles to journals that have just received their first JIF.
Says JOR Editor-in-Chief Tony Robillard (Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle in Paris, France): “JOR is now going to be better recognised beyond our community thanks to the support of the orthopterist community, who trusted us by submitting great manuscripts, and thanks to the efforts of our very dedicated editorial team and to the partnership with Pensoft/ARPHA Platform.”
Earlier in June, JOR received its 2022 Scopus CiteScore, which increased to 1.3, which places the journal in Q3 in all three Scopus categories it is listed in: Insect Science, Animal Science and Zoology, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
Unlike WoS, the Scopus metric counts citations received over the last four complete years compared to articles published in the same period. The list of journals in the Scopus database also differs from the ones indexed by WoS.
Don’t forget to follow JOR on Twitter and Facebook. You can also subscribe to the journal’s newsletters using the Email Alert field on the JOR homepage.
stoff@umass.edu Hello, John Stoffolano here with an important question. I have been doing a lot of reading about the role of the praying mantis, grasshopper, or locust in the surrealist movement. Is there anyone in your group that can state whether in Dali’s world the orthopteran was a locust or a grasshopper. Some French or Spanish member should be able to state which one Dali would have encountered in Figueres where he grew up. I hope to resolve this issue since all of the references refer to a grasshopper/locust. Thanks for help. John