 In 2018, Thomson ISI was sold to "Onex Corporation" and "Baring Private Equity Asia".They founded a new corporation, Clarivate, which is now the publisher of the JCR.In any given year, the impact factor of a journal is the number of citations, received in that year, of articles published in that journal during the two preceding years, divided by the total number of "citable items" published in that journal during the two preceding years