Journal Ranking Writing for Scholarly Journals Series By the end of this module, you will: Have a basic understanding of how a journal ranks when compared to other journals in a discipline. Know more about Journal Citation Reports and SCImago Journal Ranking Evaluate a journal’s impact and quality within a discipline. Associated with importance & prestige. Image from FreeDigitalPhotos.net Caveats… Citations are not always positive Certain fields cite more frequently than others Ranking systems are susceptible to inflation Not all journals are included in ranking databases Photo courtesy of: diylibrarian. Accessed June 20, 2012 http://www.flickr.com/photos/diylibrarian/1403798100/ Journal Citation Reports Social Sciences and STM (Science, Technology, & Medicine) Literature Impact Factor The average number of citations received per paper published in that journal during the two preceding years Image from FreeDigitalPhotos.net SCImago Free to search on the internet SJR- SCImago Journal Rank Image from FreeDigitalPhotos.net Be Realistic! Need to balance importance of journal with actual chances of getting your paper accepted. Ask yourself: “What’s the likelihood that I’ll get published”? Image from FreeDigitalPhotos.net Recap Journal ranking used to evaluate a journal’s quality within a discipline Associated with importance & prestige Measure how many times other works have cited articles in that journal Databases: Journal Citation Reports & SCImago Be realistic: Balance importance of journal with likelihood of getting published Need Help? Journal Rankings Help Page: http://www.library.carleton.ca/help/journal-rankings Contact us: http://www.library.carleton.ca/services/research-help Email: askthelibrary@carleton.ca Phone: 613-520-2735

. welcome to Journal ranking . Carleton Libraries rating for Scholarly Journals theories . by the end of this module you will have a basic understanding of how a journal ranks when compared to other journals in a discipline . and you will know more about Journal Citation Reports inside me co to database is used to determine Journal ranking in a discipline . Journal Ranking it's used in academia to Evaluate a journal's impact and quality within a discipline . it's Associated with importance and Christie's . Journal Ranking systems use a variety of measurements to deride importance . but what they all have in common is the fact that they're measuring how many times other works have cited articles in that journal . the more a journal is cited the more Important it is in the field . of course there are catty it's too of this . citations are not always positive . it could be that a journal article has just created a lot of discussion . also Certain fields cite more frequently than others . this is why it is important to look at journals within the specific objective and not just as a whole . Ranking systems are susceptible to inflation . for example review articles are papers that summarize and discussed research previously published by others to give the current state of understanding on the topic . review articles often get cited much more than regular original research articles . so if there is a journal that publishes a lot of free fuel articles . you will have more citations and a journal that does not publish review article . finally . not all journals are included in ranking databases . if your interested in that journal and cannot find it with in the Journal ranking databases . try and see if that journal and Indexed in each of databases in your field . Journals ultimately need to be kind of bowling databases . checking to see if yours is Indexed in a major database is a different way of finding out importance of that journal . . the major database for Journal Rankings Journal Citation Reports . it looks that journals in the Social Sciences as well in science technology and medical literature . there are many ways to ranked journals minutes that tactic . but the most popular way to ranking by impact Factor impact Factor The average number of citations received per paper published in that journal during the two preceding years . in other words impact Factor is calculated by looking at the average number of citations per article in that journal . impact Factor number alone is not very useful . but you can sort the list of journals in a specific subject field to see where particular journal ranks in the lead . but take a left Journal Citation Reports . also not a CCR . ca CRS a subscription databases available through carleton mind creates website . go to www dot library dot carleton dot ca . click on the database to have . and great CCR . . click on Journal Citation Reports . . you have the option of using PCR science which include science technology or medical journals . Ford CCR Social Sciences . you can search for a specific journal to see if it is Frank in CCR . you can also view a group of journals by subject category . . let's say we want to see how Journals Frankie in the behavioral sciences . . instead of peeling Journal day that I journal title . change the option to impact actor . . and click submit . you'll see list of journal ranks by impact actor . the impact Factor Kalam is highlighted in yellow . . . I may go is another Journal Ranking systems . I may go is free to search on the internet . it ranked journals through various metrics . but the one will focus on today's tea is SJR . SJR stands for stymie the journal Rank . SJR is basically very similar to impact Factor except that instead of looking at the last two years . it looks at the last three . many journals that might not be in CCR are found in Chinatown . again it is important to remember it at an SJR number alone it's not very helpful . it is important to locate journals with been the subject and see how it ranks among others . . let's go take a look a tiny co . I can get of this through a link on our Journal Ranking spate of a Library website or by simply googling time a co . . . if you want to see if your journal is listed within the database . click on journal Search . to look at Rankings click on Journal ranking . they I was interested in journals in business . I could click on business in the drop down menu cards subject area . . and further narrow my search to Taiwan by selecting a subject category . click on marketing . and then we hit Greece Press . . journals are automatically ranked by CCR by SJR . you can change this by clicking on the options for order By . . . . Journal Rankings are a popular way for those in academia to measure the importance of a journal . but you need to be realistic . if you are just starting out in Writing for Scholarly Journals you may not necessarily getting into a high impact journal . he Need to Balance importance with the actual chances of getting your paper accepted . Ask yourself What's the likelihood that I'll get published . two Recap Journal ranking is used in academia to Evaluate a journal's impact and quality within a discipline . it's Associated with importance and Christine . although there are variety of measurement to ride Important . they're all basically measuring how many times other works have cited articles in that journal . the more a journal is cited the more Important it is in that field . Journal Citation Reports RTC are and sign make our databases that Help determinant Journal ranking . of the Journal ranking is popular in academia . it is important to be realistic and balanced the importance of the Journal that the likelihood of getting published . if you want more information on Journal ranking . please consider Journal Rankings Help peach . if you have any questions please visit our website . this is that the research helped Ask for Contact elaborate subject specialist again you can print using the links provided .