TOP JOURNALS FOR RESEARCHERS
Top journals with high Impact Factor
CALCULATION OF IMPACT FACTOR
| • | Impact Factor (IF) or often called journal impact factor (JIF) is an index provided by an analytics company named Clarivate. | ||||||||||
| • | The impact factor is calculated by dividing the number of times the articles are cited in the last two years by the total number of publications in those two years. | ||||||||||
|
|||||||||||
Highest ranked Indexing services
| • | Web of Science - One of the major multidisciplinary academic databases by Clarivate (formerly Clarivate Analyticsowned by Thomson Reuters). consists of six online indexing databases. Its records dates back to 1945. |
| • | SCOPUS - Elsevier's abstract and citation database launched in 2004, its records date back to 1966. |
| • | Directory of Open Access Journals – DOAJ is an extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world and CC compliance, Gold Standard |
| • | PUBMED - PubMed was developed and is maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), PubMed is a free resource of biomedical and life sciences literature |
| • | MEDLINE - National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) premier bibliographic database and the records are indexed with NLM Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). |
| • | SLJOL – Maintained by National Science Foundation Sri Lanka support by INASP, UK. |
Web of Science Core Collection
| • | Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) -previously entitled Science Citation Index- covers more than 9,200 journals, from 1900, over 53 million records |
| • | Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) covers more than 3,400 journals in the social sciences, from 1900 to present, with over 9.3 million records |
| • | Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) covers more than 1,800 Journals in the arts and humanities, from 1975 to present, with over 4.9 million records |
| • | Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) covers more than 7,800 journals in all disciplines. from 2005 to present, with over 3 million records |
| • | Book Citation Index (BCI) covers more than 116,000 editorially selected books. s from 2005 to present, with over 53.2 million records |
| • | Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI) covers more than 205,000 conference proceedings. 1990 to present, with over 70.1 million records Journal Master List |
WoS ANALYTICAL TOOLS | |
| • | JCR, Journal Citation Reports, is a well-known indicator of quality as well as it is appreciated by the agencies that assess the research activity. It provides information about academic journals in the natural sciences and social sciences, including impact factors. The JCR was originally published as a part of Science Citation Index. |
| • | InCites is an assessment tool based on cites that allow to compare the scientific productivity, very useful for academic and governmental administrators to analyze their institutional productivity. |
| • | Essential Science Indicators (ESI) available through ISI Web of Science allows measuring the scientific performance and to track research trends. |
| • | Researcher ID is the solution from Thompson Reuters to create a profile of the author with the assignment of an identifier that makes it unique, avoiding repetitions and coincidences. |
SCOPUS
| • | Scopus is Elsevier's citation and abstract database launched in 2004. Managed by Elsevier Netherlands. |
| • | Covers nearly 36,377 titles from approximately 11,678 publishers, of which 34,346 are peer-reviewed journals in life sciences, social sciences, physical sciences and health sciences.
Journal master List |
| • | Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) covers more than 1,800 Journals in the arts and humanities, from 1975 to present, with over 4.9 million records |
| SCOPUS ANALYTICAL TOOLS | |
| • | CiteScore is the most innovative index of Elsevier available to the scientific community, which calculates the average number of citations received from a publication in a certain year with respect to the average of the cites of the previous three years. |
| • | It is updated monthly which differs from the impact factor of Thomson Reuters which is updated yearly. |
| • | SJR (Scimago Journal and Country Rank) offers a ranking of journals whose reputation is reflected by the number of citations weighted by a document published in relation to the number of published documents. |
| • | SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper), measures the impact of a cite according to the characteristics of the field of knowledge where it is integrated. |
| • | Index h, (h-Index) is an average between the number of citations and the number of publications of an author, widely used lately in research evaluation systems. |
| • | Scopus ID which gives an identification number for each author in Scopus. |
SRI LANKA JOURNALS ONLINE
| • | SLJOL is a database of journals published in Sri Lanka, covering the full range of academic disciplines. The objective of SLJOL is to give greater visibility to the participating journals, and to the research they convey. |
Hirsch index – h-Index
| • | The h-index is an author-level metric that measures both the productivity and citation impact of the publications. |
| • | The h-index correlates with obvious success indicators such as winning the Nobel Prize, being accepted for research fellowships, and academic evaluations. |
| • | The index is based on the set of the scientist's most cited papers and the number of citations that they have received in other publications. |
| Subscription-based databases such as Scopus and the Web of Science provide automated calculators, also by Google Scholar in 2011. |
JOURNAL EVALUATION CRITERIA
The changing nature of the publishing scenario,
| • | Number of journals in one area of discipline – main area and sub-area |
| • | Publisher advertisements |
| • | Emerging Open publishing models |
| • | Fake indexing systems |
| • | Accelerated speed of publishing etc |
| EVALUATION RUBRIC – Loyola Marymount University presents Journal Evaluation rubric. Pl. access; |
JOURNAL EVALUATION – INASP
|
Launched by INASP and African Journals Online in 2017, Journal Publishing Practices and Standards (JPPS) is a unique framework for providing accreditation and support for journals in the Global South hosted on the Journals Online platforms (JOLs). The framework was developed and launched as part of the DFID- and Sida-funded Strengthening Research and Knowledge Systems SRKS PROGRAMME. www.journalquality.info |
|
PREDATORY JOURNALS
| • | Check the Jeffry Beall’s List for predatory journals; |
| • | The Beall’s site covers, Publishers, Standalone Journals, Vanity Press. |
| There are fake Indexing services as well, please check the link; |