I am confused about the journal rating.Some say SCI indexing is OK for expressing the authenticity of the journal.Some say the journal should have an impact factor.Can any one clear my doubt.
Dear Noble,
A per my knowledge, Journals are indexed in SCI (Science Citation Index) governed or prepared by Thomson Reuters. Impact factors (IFs) are not for indexing purposes. IF means the total number of citations given to the journal in last two years with the total number of articles cited (for a particular journal).
Some Non-SCI journals have their own Impact factors (based on google citations, IC values, etc.) but are not indexed by Thomson Reuters.
Authenticity of the Journal for SCI (I am not saying other journals not indexed by Thomson Reuters are fake) can be checked by looking into Journal's webpage for their Indexing. Every journal shows in which their journal is indexing (e.g. Biosis, SCI or SCIE, IC, Cross ref, and many more). Or you can check from the Thomson Reuters website which journals are indexed in SCI.
Hope this helps. Lets see what others share.
Kunal
Dear Noble,
A per my knowledge, Journals are indexed in SCI (Science Citation Index) governed or prepared by Thomson Reuters. Impact factors (IFs) are not for indexing purposes. IF means the total number of citations given to the journal in last two years with the total number of articles cited (for a particular journal).
Some Non-SCI journals have their own Impact factors (based on google citations, IC values, etc.) but are not indexed by Thomson Reuters.
Authenticity of the Journal for SCI (I am not saying other journals not indexed by Thomson Reuters are fake) can be checked by looking into Journal's webpage for their Indexing. Every journal shows in which their journal is indexing (e.g. Biosis, SCI or SCIE, IC, Cross ref, and many more). Or you can check from the Thomson Reuters website which journals are indexed in SCI.
Hope this helps. Lets see what others share.
Kunal
Hi Noble,
1. There are many bibliographic database out there collecting sets of publications/abstracts. SCI (Science Citation Index) is one of them. According to Wikipedia, the Science Citation Index (SCI) is a citation index originally produced by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) and created by Eugene Garfield. It was officially launched in 1964. It is now owned by Thomson Reuters. SCI normally cover notable and significant Journals. That means weak/insignificant Journals (such as some University campus Journals) won't be collected into its database. Therefore, many research institutes encourage researchers to publish their work in a SCI Journal.
2. Articles published from a particular Journal can be collected in several bibliographic databases at the same time. For example, the 'Journal of Plant Biotechnology Reports'. Their abstract was indexed in [Science Citation Index Expanded (SciSearch), Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition, SCOPUS, INSPEC, Google Scholar, EBSCO, CSA, ProQuest, CAB International, Academic OneFile, AGRICOLA, Biological Abstracts, BIOSIS, CAB Abstracts, EMBiology, Expanded Academic, Food Science and Technology Abstracts, Global Health, OCLC, SCImago, Summon by ProQuest.] This kind of information you can check out from the Journal's website.
3. Impact Factor (IF) of a Journal is one of the metrics used to evaluate how 'good' the Journal is. Like Kunal mentioned above, IF is obtained through measuring how many people cite articles in the Journal in the past 2 years. Top scientific Journals usually have high IF, such as Nature, its IF =42, Science, its IF =31.
4. A Journal indexed in SCI can have a high IF (such as Nature) or can have a IF
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