Chemistry: Journal Evaluation Tools

A 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.

Produced by Leiden University’s Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) this database provides free access to bibliometric indicators on scientific journals. The indicators have been calculated for over 20,000 journals indexed in Elsevier's Scopus database.

See comparative citation data and impact factors for scientific journals in the Scopus database.

Founded by the two science editors Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky, this web log provide a window into the scientific process by tracking retractions of published scientific articles, which are mostly due to fraud, plagiarism, and carelessness. Contributions are welcome for this web log.

PubPeer seeks to create an online community that uses the publication of scientific results as an opening for fruitful discussion among scientists. With PubPeer, scientists can comment on almost any scientific article published with a DOI or preprint in the arXiv. A blog http://blog.pubpeer.com//, is included.

Think. Check. Submit. is a campaign to help researchers identify trusted journals for their research. It is a simple checklist researchers can use to assess the credentials of a journal or publisher.

Similar to Think Check Submit, this website judges the legitimacy and academic credentials of conferences to help them decide whether to attend or submit your work to a conference.

A market place for scientific and scholarly journals which publish articles in open access. Quality scoring of the journals is based on academic crowd sourcing; price information includes institutional licensed pricing.

Provides a summary of policy documents that cite that researcher’s papers or mentions their name. See https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-04070-7 for a news article.