Publishing in impactful journals increases your chances of your research being used or cited. It can be used to assess the academic impact of a journal. Journal-level metrics calculate the number of citations to articles published in a journal over a given time period. There are many different sources of citation data, so it is best to use a variety of metrics to evaluate a journal.
Journal Impact Factor (JIF) - A JIF is the average of the sum of the citations received in a given year to a journal’s previous two years of publications. A JIF of 1.0 means that, on average, the articles published one or two years ago have been cited one time. JIF is not field normalised, which means that different field of studies will have different citation practices. It is always best to use JIF within the same area of study.
CDU does not subscribe to JIF, but you can access it via Web of Science by searching the journal name and clicking on "view journal information".
Journal Citation Report Rank (JCR) - allows you to see where your journal ranks in a subject category. This rank gives more context to the JIF.
CDU does not subscribe to JCR, but you can access it via Web of Science by searching the journal name and clicking on "view journal information".
Cite Score - is a method that measures the citation impact of a journal. It calculates the average number of citations to documents by a journal over four years, divided by the number of the same document types indexed in Scopus and published in those same four years. The higher the CiteScore, the more valuable the journal is deemed to be. Can be access via Scopus.
SCImago Journal Ranking (SJR) - measures the scientific influence of scholarly journals that accounts for both the number of citations received by a journal, and the importance or prestige of the journals where such citations appear. SJR can be used to make comparisons between journals in different disciplines. The effect of SJR is to flatten differences between fields with different citation practices. This is also where you can find out if your journal is Q1 or Q2.
Source Normalised Impact Per Paper (SNIP) - is a field normalised assessment of journal impact. SNIP corrects for differences in citation practices between scientific fields, thereby allowing for more accurate between-field comparisons of citation impact. A SNIP score is the ratio of a citation per paper and the citation potential of a paper. A journal with a SNIP of 1.0 has the median (not mean) number of citations for journals in that field.
This metric calculates how many publications, as an absolute count or a percentage, are in the top 1%, 5%, 10% or 25% of the most-cited journals indexed by Scopus