Cabells Scholarly Analytics Submission/manuscript requirements, acceptance rates, review information and more for journals in education, psychology, business, computer science, and nursing
Cabells provides acceptance rates, time to review/publication, and journal history. They've established their own Cabells Classification Index (CCI snapshot) as well as listing Altmetrics where available.
Scopus An abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources, including journals, conference proceedings, trade publications, abstracts, and patent records from the humanities, sciences and social sciences. Allows users to locate the most highly cited items and the articles that cite them.
Scopus provides three metrics: CiteScore, SJR, and SNIP. To locate a journal's Scopus-provided metrics, search the journal title, publisher, ISSN, or subject in the Sources list. If you cannot find a title in Scopus, check the Master Journal List from Clarivate/Web of Science (linked below).
In addition to traditional publications, Scopus also indexes many Open Access journals with Cite Scores, which can aid in assessing OA journal quality. To read more about evaluating open access journal quality, see the Open Access Publishing page.
Another service, known as SCIMAGOjr, uses data from Scopus to create data visualizations of various metrics such as quartiles. It also subdivides subject categories in a more granular fashion.
Master Journal List (Clarivate/Web of Science)From the website: Master Journal List is a free tool that allows users to search for all titles currently covered in Web of Science. Updated on a monthly basis, the Master Journal List allows researchers, publishers and librarians to keep track of the publication landscape.
Master Journal List is a service from Clarivate, the owners of Web of Science, Journal Citation Reports (JCR), and ProQuest. MJL impact factors are 1-2 years in arrears.
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1. Creating a free account on the Master Journal List website will give you the best functionality.
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2. Journal Citation Indicator is a metric intended to make journal impact scores comparable across disciplines.
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3. If a title listed in the MJL has no Journal Citation Indicator, the most common reason is that the title is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index. ESCI is where Clarivate puts journals they are evaluating to be included in one of their core citation databases: Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, or Arts and Humanities Citation Index.
For further information on comparing metrics, see the article "Squishy Comparisons: Pending Changes in Impact Metrics" by Chris Carmichael, MSLIS, in the University Libraries newsletter The Stacks or her presentation "Measure for Measure: Finding Impact Metrics in the Library," hosted through the Center for Faculty Excellence.
Finally, for individual journal metrics, many publishers include their most recent Impact Factor on the journal's website.
Google Scholar MetricsJournal ranking system produced by Google that includes a broader based of internet sources. Also has a top publications ranking list.
Google Scholar allows for exploration of publications by subcategories. Journals are ordered by their five-year-h-index and h-median metrics. For personal author metrics, a Google Scholar account can be useful for tracking what has been published under a/your name and where it is being linked.
A few caveats:
- 1. Currently, there is no human oversight over Google Scholar's web-crawling and indexing.
- 2. Not all citations are created equal. Google Scholar will include citations to dissertations, presentations, articles, book chapters, regular websites, white papers, and all manner of gray literature.
- 3. Being created by machine, Google Scholar's citations are frequently inaccurate and/or incomplete, so use caution when extracting bibliographic information from Google Scholar's Cite tool.