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UMSL Faculty Publishing Toolkit

Information about scholarly publishing for researchers at the University of Missouri-St. Louis

Journal-level Metrics

Journal-level metrics help measure the impact or importance of a journal in a field. The factors calculate the numbers of articles published per year and the number of citations to articles published in that particular journal.

Where can I find journal-level metrics?

CiteScore is a simple way of measuring the citation impact of sources available in Scopus, such as journals, by simply averaging the number of citations per document that a title receives over a three-year period.  For more information about CiteScore, please see How are CiteScore Metrics used in Scopus?

  1. Go to CiteScore
  2. Once in CiteScore, search for a journal


     
  3. On the result page you can view the CiteScore metric, as well as other journal metrics such as SNIP and SJR


     
  4. Clicking on the journal title will bring you to the journal details page, where you can view the CiteScore, as well as CiteScore rank & trend, and CiteScore Tracker


     

CiteScore counts all documents listed in Scopus, including letters and editorials. Some in the scholarly community believe this can dilute results, but others believe all documents have the potential to attract citations and therefore should be included.  

A freely accessible tool, Google Scholar Metrics, ranks journals by five-year h-indexes and h-median indexes in 9 different languages. You can sort by both broad categories and subcategories.


  1. Go to Google Scholar Metrics
  2. Select Categories and choose an academic discipline
  3. To limit even further, select Subcategories

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Google Scholar Metrics is limited to articles indexed in Google Scholar and will only display the top 20 journals for each subject category. Additionally, there is no historical data.