The Korea Citation Index (KCI, 한국학술지인용색인) is a non-commercial South Korean
citation index
A citation index is a kind of bibliographic index, an index of citations between publications, allowing the user to easily establish which later documents cite which earlier documents. A form of citation index is first found in 12th-century H ...
operated by the
National Research Foundation of Korea
The National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF; ) is a research institute for Korean studies.
It was established in 2009 through a merger between the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF; ), Korea Research Foundation (KRF; ; establ ...
(NRF, 한국연구재단). Though it mainly covers researches written in
Korean language
Korean is the first language, native language for about 81 million people, mostly of Koreans, Korean descent. It is the national language of both South Korea and North Korea. In the south, the language is known as () and in the north, it is kn ...
, some of English language journals are also indexed in KCI. Established in 2007, KCI covers selected South Korean journals and their researches published from year 2004. KCI indexed journals are reported to respond faster than
SCI and
SSCI indexed journals.
KCI is directly linked to 'Korea Researcher Information' (한국연구자정보), an unified national database for each researcher's personal data in South Korea, since KCI was designed to more precisely evaluate research competency of each South Korean universities. Researches written in Korean language cannot be evaluated appropriately under English language oriented global indices (such as
Impact factor
The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a type of journal ranking. Journals with higher impact factor values are considered more prestigious or important within their field.
The Impact Factor of a journa ...
).
From year 2020, the NRF classifies KCI related journals into four categories; Not Accredited (일반), Candidate (등재후보), Accredited (등재), and Excellent Accredited (우수등재). While promotion from 'Not Accredited' to 'Candidate Journal' and 'Accredited Journal' only requires quantitative standards to be met, promotion from 'Accredited Journal' to 'Excellent Accredited Journal' should pass several strict qualitative evaluation criteria. The Excellent Accredited Journals are selected among top 10% of normal Accredited Journals.
See also
*
Korea Research Foundation
The National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF; ) is a research institute for Korean studies.
It was established in 2009 through a merger between the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF; ), Korea Research Foundation (KRF; ; establ ...
*
Science Citation Index
The Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) is a citation index owned by Clarivate and previously by Thomson Reuters.
It was created by the Eugene Garfield at the Institute for Scientific Information, launched in 1964 as Science Citation Index ( ...
*
Social Sciences Citation Index
The Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) is a commercial citation index product of Clarivate Analytics. It was originally developed by the Institute for Scientific Information from the Science Citation Index. The Social Sciences Citation Index is ...
*
Arts and Humanities Citation Index
The Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), also known as Arts and Humanities Search, is a citation index, with abstracting and indexing for more than 1,700 arts and humanities academic journals, and coverage of disciplines that includes s ...
*
References
External links
*
Clarivate service on KCI database
{{Authority control
Citation indices
Online databases
Bibliographic databases and indexes
Academic journals of South Korea
Libraries in South Korea
Publications established in 2007