Research Guides: Impact of Scholarship (metrics): Journal Impact

Journal Citation Reports (Web of Science)

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Provides impact factor and other metrics for evaluating the quality of research and peer-reviewed journals. NOTE: Covers mostly science and social science disciplines.

Eigenfactor

Eigenfactor
Eigenfactor offers an alternative to Journal Impact Factor. The website has rankings for the various disciplines, but also some interesting disciplinary mapping tools.

MORE INFO: Ranks journals similar to Google PageRank of websites. It uses the structure of the entire network (instead of purely local citation information) to evaluate the importance of each journal. Journals are rated according to the number of incoming citations, with citations from highly-ranked journals weighted to make a larger contribution to the Eigenfactor than those from poorly-ranked journals.

Eigenfactor Metrics consists of the Eigenfactor score and the Article Influence score.

Eigenfactor score: a measure of the overall value provided by all of the articles published in a given journal in a year.
Article Influence score: a measure of a journal's prestige based on per article citations and comparable to Journal Impact Factor.

SCImago Journal Rank (Elsevier)

SJR Scimago Journal & Country Rank
Publicly available portal that includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus database (Elsevier B.V.). These indicators can be used to assess and analyze scientific domains.

H5-Index (Google Scholar)

Google Scholar H-5 Index
H5-index is the h-index for articles published in the last 5 complete years. Sort the top journals by language, then by category (discipline) and subcategories. Metrics described

Visualizing Software

CitNetExplorer
Software from CWTS of Leiden University, that allows citation networks to be imported directly from the Web of Science database and used to visualize and analyze citation networks of scientific publications.
Gelpi
An open-source software for visualizing and analyzing large networks graphs.
Sci2
Network visualization tool that allows for easy data import from standard comma-separated lists and generates network analytics as well as visualizations.
VOSviewer
Software tool for constructing and visualizing bibliometric networks.