Measures of Journal Impact
Journal impact measurements reflect the importance of a particular journal in a field and take into account the number of articles published per year and the number of citations to articles published in that journal. Like author impact measurements, journal impact measures can be only so informative, and researchers in a discipline will have the best sense of the top journals in their field.
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- Journal Citation ReportsA product of ISI Web of Knowledge, this database provide impact factors and rankings of many journals in the social and life sciences.
- Eigenfactor and Article Influence ScoreThese alternative measure of journal importance in a field are available from the Eigenfactor website.
- ScimagoThis website uses citation data from Scopus, a scholarly research database. It also provides rankings by journal country of origin.