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Measuring and Broadening Your Research Impact

Choosing a Journal to Publish In

UlrichsWeb provides detailed information on more than 300,000 periodicals including publisher, language, abstracting & indexing coverage, full-text database coverage, subject area and reviews written by librarians.

You can also run a search in Web of Science on your research area; click Analyze Results; select Source Titles; click on Analyze. The publications that are most published in will be listed. The more specific you are in the topic search, the better.

 

Sources for Journal Rankings

The NMSU Library does not have a subscription to the Journal Citation Reports (JCR), the primary source used for determining journal impact. Several alternative resources are listed here. Some publishers will provide the impact factor for their journals on their website.

Eigenfactor.org

A free and searchable database, Eigenfactor covers the natural and social sciences and "also lists newsprint, PhD theses, popular magazines and more." The Eigenfactor is now included in Journal Citation Reports.  It is listed here for use on its own. The 2014 Journal Rankings were published Feb. 2016. You may search for a journal title here. The Eigenfactor Score supplied information about the overall value of the articles within a journal for a particular year - while the Article Influence score measures a journal's prestige based on per article citations and is comparable to JCR's Journal Impact Factor.

SCImago Journal (SJR)

A free source that uses data from Elsevier's Scopus database.You can search for a specific title or see the rankings of journals within a particular subject area.

Journal Metrics

Includes SNIP - Source Normalized Impact per Paper measures contextual citation impact by weighting citations based on the total number of citations in a subject field. Also offers IPP metrics: the Impact per Publication measures the ratio of citations per article published in the journal.

Google Scholar Metrics

Google Scholar Metrics provide an easy way for authors to quickly gauge the visibility and influence of recent articles in scholarly publications. Scholar Metrics summarize recent citations to many publications, to help authors as they consider where to publish their new research.

Harzing.com

Provides a "Journal Quality List". The Journal Quality List comprises academic journals in the following broad areas: Economics, Finance, Accounting, Management, and Marketing.