In each field I am sure there is some sort of a list. Plus those in the field tend to know.
What field are you in? I am sure someone in the group can give you the answer you are looking for. One very good indicator is the impact factor of the journal.
Dr. Nasser, I'm in the education field. I hope so..I've been asking around, nothing is given as yet.
Please note that journals' impact factor and scientists' h-index are different - although related - concepts.
http://thomsonreuters.com/social-sciences-citation-index/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-index
Dear Fatimah you can check impact point of journal in scimago, as it a powered by scopus.
For education you can go directly to this link:
http://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php?area=3300&category=3304&country=all&year=2012&order=sjr&min=0&min_type=cd
h-index characterizes a scholar, not a journal. If you have 2 articles that were each cited at least 2 times, then your index is 2. If you have 4 articles that all were cited at least 4 times, then your index is 4. If you have 4 articles but all were cited only 1 time, then your index is 1. Also, if you have only 1 article that was cited 4 times, then your index is also 1.
Characterization of h-index and similar citation measures has been fully achieved by Prof. Woeginger (TU/E).
Thanks dear all, but I'm still a bit unsure of this. I will have to read your links and try to make sense of this.
@ Fatimah : Share your further questions and uncertainties with us, that's what RG is for, and it may speed up getting an answer on your basic question. For me, the most helpful up to now was the link of Dony to Scimago. Don't worry to much about all kinds of indices, it's a research area on its own. What counts most, is (a) what is the established practice in your own country? and (b) what is the established practice in your own field of research? Naturally, if you have already found some good papers in one and the same journal, and this journal's impact is high enough in the ranks of old ISI, why not publishing there? Last resort: ask your peers, ask your supervisors. Also see link to Elsevier's "journal-finder" below.
http://www.elsevier.com/reviewers/reviewers-update/journal-finder
Sorry Fatima I am in Communications Engineering however if I find some useful information I will send it to you
Dear Fatimah, it's the same in Russia. May be, it will be helpful. http://elibrary.ru/titles.asp?
I agree with @ Paul on Don't worry to much about all kinds of indices, it's a research area on its own....You are already in RG.... which else it the best platform to publish...
The number of downloads of the publication and a good RG score is a very good indicator of your research performance....
+Dear @Fatimah & all,
1) As regards high-tier journals here is a subjective but worth mentioning approach: Quoting from http://www.ismpp.org/assets/docs/Education/AnnualMeeting/7thAM/PosterPresentations/analyzing%20the%20landscape%20of%20author%20instructions%20for%20general%20medicine%20journals%20past%20and%20present.pdf (subjective division-criteria, IF: impact factor):
"• Based on these criteria, a list of 85 journals ranked by IF was evenly
divided into 3 tiers (high, middle, and low)
○ High-tier journals included those with an IF of ≥ 2.2
○ Middle-tier journals included those with an IF ranging from ≥ 1 to ≤ 2.1
○ Low-tier journals were those with an IF of < 1"
2) As regards h-index in Scopus:
It appears gained after publishing in a journal covered by the Elsevier's Scopus abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, including scientific journals, books, and conference proceedings.
Kind regards.
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