LibGuides: Chemistry: Journal Evaluation Tools

Journal Evaluation Tools

SCImago Journal & Country Rank
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.

Journal Citation Reports This link opens in a new window
Journal Citation Reports (JCR) allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 9,100 scholarly and technical journals from more than 3,300 publishers. It can show you the most frequently cited journals in a field, highest impact journals in a field, and largest journals in a field. Search or browse in JCR Science Edition or JCR Social Sciences Edition. The current edition is always dated for the previous year.

CWTS Journal Indicators
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.
Journal Metrics
See comparative citation data and impact factors for scientific journals in the Scopus database.
Retraction Watch
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 - The Online Journal Club
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
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.
Think Check Attend
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.
Quality Open Access Market
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.

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