Tracking Research Impact

Launched in 2015, Think. Check. Submit. helps researchers identify trusted journals for their research. Through a range of tools and practical resources, this international, cross-sector initiative aims to educate researchers, promote integrity, and build trust in credible research and publications. Central to the initiative is a checklist based on best practices in scholarly communication.

List of both Positive and Negative Indicators to help evaluate publications. Compiled by librarians at Grand Valley State University (USA).

Criteria developed from a collaboration among: The Committee on Publication Ethics, the Directory of Open Access Journals, the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association and the World Association of Medical Editors.

The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) provides advice and flowcharts on publication ethics.

Details the 45 journals used by the Financial Times in compiling the Business School research rank, included in both the Global MBA and EMBA rankings.

The AASL (Association of Architecture School Librarians) Core Periodicals List is intended for a first-degree-program in architecture (for architecture libraries in North America).

List of journals and organizations that foster or support design research and scholarship. Many of these host peer-reviewed conferences and publish their conferences’ proceedings. Some facilitate juried exhibitions and workshops.

UK librarians' list of core journals includes: architecture, interior design, housing & urban planning, and civil engineering.

A British guide to the relative quality of journals in which business and management academics might publish the results of their research.

The Association for Information Systems' Journal Rankings edited by Carol Saunders, covers the areas of management information systems.

A journal quality list ranking journals in 15 sub-disciplines in business, economics and law. It is also incorporated into the Journal Quality List (above).

DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.

Compiled by European Science Foundation. Places journals in three ranks - INT1 (international with high visibility); INT2 (international with significant visibility); NAT (of significance in a particular country)

Assesses research quality within Australia's higher education institutions
•ERA 2010 - A single quality rating of A*, A, B or C
•ERA 2012 - A journal list without ranking

Compiled and edited by Dr. Anne-Wil Harzing to assist academics to target papers at journals of an appropriate standard, the JQL is a collation of published lists or journal ranking lists from various universities in the broad areas of economics, finance, accounting, management and marketing, tourism, psychology and sociology. "Publish or Perish", a free software for analyzing citations in Google Scholar, is available for download from this site.

Maintained by Thomson Reuters to include core literature only. Less influential journals are removed and new quality journals are added to reflect the evolution of scholarly topics. Includes the list of Arts & Humanities Citation Index Source Publications which are not calculated in JCR

As journal ranking information is limited for humanities journals alternative metrics may need to be found. One such metric is the rejection rate for a publication. -- In the MLA Directory (available through MLA International Bibliography) click on Search and then Directory of Periodicals. Next enter a journal and Search button. If found, click on the journal title to bring up the full Directory entry. The difference between Articles Submitted Per Year and Articles Published Per Year gives the rejection rate

Thousands of peer-reviewed journals, preliminary findings from millions of conference papers, and analysis in an expanding collection of books. Content indexed in Scopus comes from 5,000 publishers from around the world.

The journal impact factor is a measure of the frequency with which the "average article" in a journal indexed by Thomson Reuters has been cited in a particular year.

The Eigenfactor™ score is a measure of the overall value provided by all of the articles published in a given journal in a year. Eigenfactor uses Thomson Reuters citation data in Journal Citation Reports or at http://www.eigenfactor.org

The Article Influence™ Score determines the average influence of a journal's articles over the first five years after publication.
The score is normalized so that the mean article in the entire JCR database has an an article incluence of 1.00. A value above 1.0 indicates above average influence.

SJRs are based on information obtained from Elsevier's Scopus database which includes more than 18,500 titles from 5,000 publishers. The SJR indicator measures the scientific influence of the average article in a journal, it expresses the average number of weighted citations received in the selected year by the documents published in the selected journal in the three previous years. SJR also normalizes for differences in citation behavior between subject fields.

SNIP is a metric developed by researchers at the University of Leiden's Centre for Science and Technology Studies. It takes into account differences in citation patterns across disciplines using Elsevier's Scopus database data. SNIP measures contextual citation impact by weighting citations based on the total number of citations in a subject field.

The H-index is a measure of an individual's impact on the research community based upon the number of papers published and the number of citations these papers have received. The h index expresses the journal's number of articles (h) that have received at least h citations.

Provides a browsable list of the top 100 journals indexed in Google Scholar, with titles ordered by their five-year h-index and h-median metrics. Lists of top 20 journal titles are also available for both broad and specific subject areas. Uses the h-index method of impact for publications and an h5 variation for 5 complete years.

Contains SJR values derived from the citation data in the Scopus Database. A journal list can be generated for a subject category. High impact journals indexed in Scopus can be identified by sorting journals' SJR.

Contains SNIP & SJR values derived from the citation data in the Scopus Database

Using the same dataset as "Journal Citation Reports" (JCR), the Eigenfactor metrics try to overcome some problems inherent to the JCR Impact Factor: Citation data are gathered for 5 years, self-citations are removed, quality of the citing journals is considered, differences in citation patterns among disciplines are adjusted