Impact and Metrics: Library Tools and Services

Journal Metrics Overview

These resources are your best bet to find highly-ranked journals and you can contact your USF subject Librarian for more help!

Make sure to use our Research and Creative Metrics Template

This is a general document and guide for librarians, faculty, and students to use to collect metrics information on their published and presented creative works.

Journal Impact Factors (JIF)

Journal Impact Factors (JIF) are released annually by Clarivate Analytics. All journals in the JCR appear in the Web of Science journal citation databases. The Journal Impact Factor gives a measure of the frequency that the average article in a journal has been cited in a particular year or number of years.

InCites Journal Citation Reports (Use, or create your individual account to sign in, both on and off campus)
Tool to evaluate and compare Science and Social Science journals using citation data from scholarly journals, technical journals, and conference proceedings.

CiteScore

Introduced in 2016, Elsevier's CiteScore metric calculates the average number of citations received in a calendar year by the number of items published by the journal in the previous three years.

Scopus
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings and features tools to track, analyze, and visualize research.

SCIMago Journal Rank (SJR)

Using Scopus data, SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) offers metrics that are the average number of weighted citations received in year over the number of documents published in the previous three years. Citations are weighted--worth more or less--depending on the source that they come from (subject field, quality and reputation of the journal, etc.) These metrics can be applied to journals, book series and conference proceedings. The SCImago site allows you to view journal rankings by subject area. Below is a brief tutorial about locating journals in Arts and Humanities by SJR quartile and H index ranking.

SCImago Journal & Country Rank
The SCImago Journal & Country Rank includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus database. It includes two metrics: SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP). SJR is based on times cited, but also uses an algorithm to calculate article influence, which it uses to create rankings.

Other Journal Ranking and Information Resources

Cabell's International
An index and directory to assist in locating and selecting a journal based on manuscript characteristics and topic areas.
Google Scholar Journal Rankings
Harzing Journal Quality List
The Journal Quality List comprises academic journals in the following broad areas: Economics, Finance, Accounting, Management, and Marketing.
Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
Detailed information on all types of periodicals: scholarly journals, e-journals, magazines, newspapers, etc., including language, ISSN, subjects and more.