Information about journals iscrucial when deciding where to publish your research findings. We recommend platforms and the list of indices that can help you find journals to study research outcomes and to publish your results.
Scientometric indices that help to evaluate journals:
Jornal impact factor is the correlation of average citation number of the journal’s articles during the current year to the overall number of articles published in this journal during the two preceding years.
CiteScore calculates the average number of citations received in 4 calendar years to 5 peer-reviewed document types (research articles, review articles, conference proceedings, data papers, and book chapters) published in a journal in the same four years. .
SJR (SCImago Journal Rank) is a comprehensive index that considers the citation of a journal’s articles, the reputation of the journals citing it, and the thematic relationships between the publications.
Quartile refers to a category assigned to scientific journals that indicates their level of citation. Based on ranking results, each journal is placed into one of four quartiles:
Q1 – journals with the highest citation indexes (75–99%);
Q2 – journals with citation levels ranging from the middle to the highest (50–74%);
Q3 – journals with citation levels ranging from the middle to the lowest (25–49%);
Q4 – journals with the lowest citation levels (0–24%).
SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper) is a contextual index that considers the probability of citation within a specific subject area. It calculates the ratio of a journal’s potential for overall citations to its potential for citations within its specific subject area.
Scimago Journal & Country Rank measures the prestige of citations received by a journal. It weights the value of a citation depending on the field, quality and reputation of the journal that the citation comes from, so that “all citations are not equal.” SJR also takes differences in the behavior of academics in different disciplines into account and can be used to compare journals in different fields..
Instructions on determining the quartile of a journal in international scientometric databases Scopus and Web of Science Core Collection.
You can receive consultations on how to determine a journal’s impact factor, select journals based on theirsubject area to study and publish your own research results at the Center for Education and Research Support (KPI Library, 4th floor, room 4.4).
Contacts: Marija Fedorets +38 (044) 204-96-72 m.fedorets@library.kpi.ua
