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Research Impact and Metrics: Choose the Right Journals

Choose the Right Journals

You can use JCR to check journals of your areas of interests, find out the number of citations in a journal, Journal Impact Factors (JIF), JIF Quartile, etc.  

Click here to begin your search on Journal Citation Reports.

Journal Citation Reports

Use Manuscript Matcher to find relevant, reputable journals for potential publication of your research based on an analysis of tens of millions of citation connections in Web of Science Core Collection.

 

CiteScore - Measures average citations received per document published in the journal (in any year).

Scimago Journal & Country Rank

Scimago Journal Rank (SJR) measures weighted citations received by the serial. Citation weighting depends on subject field and prestige (SJR) of the citing serial.
Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) measures actual citations received relative to citations expected for the serial’s subject field.

Scimago Journal & Country Rank

SJR and SNIP scores can also be found under Scopus's "Source Details" page.

Publisher websites always have detailed information on their metrics

 

Examples:

Journal Metrics Overview | Wiley

Understanding journal metrics - Author Services (taylorandfrancis.com)

Scopus metrics | Elsevier