Journal Ranking Measures
There are several prominent journal ranking metrics available. These measure and report the most prestigious journals in a given discipline based on citation activity of papers published in the journals.
- Journal citation reports This link opens in a new windowThe Journal citation reports is an essential, comprehensive, and unique resource for journal evaluation, using citation data drawn from over 8,400 scholarly and technical journals worldwide. The Science edition contains data from roughly 5,000 journals in the areas of science and technology. To access Journal Citation Reports: from main Search Page, Select a Database tab then click on the Journal Citation Reports.
- Google Scholar MetricsGoogle Scholar uses a proprietary algorithm to rank the top 100 journals in academic disciplines.
- Scimago Journal and Country Rank"The SCImago Journal & Country Rank is a portal that includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus® database (Elsevier B.V.). These indicators can be used to assess and analyze scientific domains "
Journal Citation Reports- Impact Factors
Tutorials for accessing journal ranking information in Journal Citation Reports.
- Using Journal Citation ReportsTutorials on using Journal Citation reports, including how to find journal impact factors.
Using Google Scholar Metrics
Accessing and using Google Scholar Metrics to see Google journal rankings.
- Google Scholar MetricsRankings based on Google Scholar citation activity. Not as rigorously reported as Journal Citation Reports or SCImago rankings.
- Manipulating Google Scholar Citations and Google Scholar Metrics: simple, easy and temptingABSTRACT: The launch of Google Scholar Citations and Google Scholar Metrics may provoke a revolution in the research evaluation field as it places within every researcher’s reach tools that allow bibliometric measuring. In order to alert the research community over how easily one can manipulate the data and bibliometric indicators offered by Google’s products we present an experiment in which we manipulate the Google Citations’ profiles of a research group through the creation of false documents that cite their documents, and consequently, the journals in which they have published modifying their H-index. For this purpose we created six documents authored by a faked author and we uploaded them to a researcher’s personal website under the University of Granada’s domain. The result of the experiment meant an increase of 774 citations in 129 papers (six citations per paper) increasing the authors and journals’ H-index ....
Using SciMago Journal and Country Rank
- Help page for SCImago Journal and Country RankingsExplanations of terms and instructions on how to search.
- Browsing and Analyzing Journals in ScopusVideo tutorial about how to browse and analyze journals in Scopus. Scopus SNP and SJR ranking are based on the SCImago ranking system.
