Journal Metrics & Selection Tools

 Source: https://lib.stpetersburg.usf.edu/Faculty/metrics

Journal Metrics & Selection Tools

• Incites Journal Citation Reports

• Google Scholar Journal Metrics
• SCImago Journal & Country Rankings

  Journal metrics from Elsevier's Scopus® database

• Scopus

  Features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. Includes CiteScore metrics to track journal impact.
• Cabell's Directories

  Journal acceptance rates, peer review information, etc for journals in the fields of business, psychology, and education

• APA journal statistics

  Yearly pdf of acceptance rates, etc for psychology journals

• MLA Directory of Periodicals

  Provides editorial and contact information on a variety of journal titles.
• Ulrich's Periodical Directory

  Confirm a journal is academic, scholarly, and/or peer-reviewed by looking up the journal title in Ulrich's

Book Metrics

• Academic Search Premier

  In addition to scholarly journals, this database also includes news magazines (such as Time, Newsweek, or US News and World Report) and some newspapers (New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal). Use the links on the left side of your search results screen to limit to magazines or newspapers.
• Book Review Digest Plus (EBSCO)

  Provides excerpts of reviews of current English-language fiction and non- fiction.

• Google Scholar

  Google Scholar provides citing references for many books and book chapters.

• Omnifile Full Text Mega (Ebsco)

  Another useful, multidisciplinary database. Searches may be limited to peer reviewed articles.
• WorldCat

  Find books in libraries in Florida and around the United States. Many of these items may be borrowed through interlibrary loan.

Citing references

More and more databases are adding cited references to their content; however, Web of Science and Google Scholar remain the primary sources available through the USF Libraries.  There will be overlap between the databases but it pays to check each source since they all tend to have unique cited items.  In addition, many of the larger journal publishers have now added citing references to their online article pages.

• Google Scholar

• Web of Science

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Additional Resources

• Impact: Library Tools for Promotion and Tenure (USF Tampa Library)
• Journal Quality List
• Publish or Perish

H-Index and more

• "An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output." By J.E. Hirsch

  from: Proceedings of the National Academic of Sciences 102(46), 16569-16572.
  

Several tools are available that allow you to calculate your H-index and get more information on the impact of your research. 

• Google Scholar My Citations
• Web of Science ResearcherID

  Use the "Citation Metrics" link to see how Web of Science calculates your h-index, the average number of citations per article, etc.