Why not? Most journal rankings, such as Scimago's, deal with network measures (SJR), publication, or pure citation measures. The business model behind journals is a different thing. Of course, it is a good idea to investigate the correlation between rankings of a certain type and business models. If it turns out that certain business models lead to better rankings and if those rankings are deemed important then those responsible for using other models should conclude for themselves. All this has nothing to do with fairness.

What is your problem!! Ranking of a journal don't depend on how much you paid for but how is its reviewing system and your research quality

Dear Ronald,

Thank you so much for your message.

I still think that fairness is an issue because not every researcher can support fees or have sponsorship to publish in open access system. Or maybe the right word is equity, instead. Sometimes authors have no choice other than to publish in no open access journals, and that can seriously affect the number of downloads and citations.

Dear Walaa

Ranking of a journal depends, among others, on the visibility, citations, reads, downloads, ..., and publications in open access journals, besides the quality of the authors paper and of the reviewers scientific quality, implies author's mandatory payment of fee. Thus, the selection of a Journal to submit a paper is biased, you know that the publication does not depend only on the quality of your work, but also on your available money support/sponsorship.

Teresa Oliveira

Whatever may be the condition Q1 will be always Q1, if it is open access (with APC or without APC) or no free access (which has subscriptions)

Dear Ramkumar,

I know that, but the authors' editorial options are restricted because of money issues and in my opinion that's not fair.

business models are constantly changing and we are witnessing one such modification: from subscription models to open access and hybrid models. A classic economist might say "let the market decide what's best"

I find it more pressing to ascertain whether scientific articles should be the product of someone else's business...

Yes Nuno, that's the only way, "let the market decide what's best" , the problem is that it takes too long to understand that choice ;)! Thanks for your pertinent comment.

hi

JCR is more exact than SCImago. some journals are Q1 in SCImago but Q3 or less in JCR.

Regards,