It is perhaps common knowledge that numerical indicators do not necessarily reflect the prestige of a given journal within the academic community.
To give just one example, according to the recently released impact factor statistics from Thompson Reuters, in the Mathematics category the journal Acta Numerica has higher impact factor than the Annals of Mathematics or Acta Mathematica, but it is pretty certain that the majority of pure mathematicians will consider the latter two journals far more prestigious than the former.
So, the question is, is there a numerical indicator (impact factor, eigenfactor, Google Scholar metric etc.) which matches close enough the prestige of a given journal in the expert community ?
I am particularly interesting in mathematics journals but would gladly learn about the situation in the other disciplines as well.
I see that impact factor from Thomson Reuters journals is the most popular. Even on RG, alternative impact factors have been removed, with some exceptions. RG scores take TR IF into account. (For some of us who have no IF points, we cheerfully think about our citations.)
I learned that TR is not perfect, but it's about the 'best' at this point in time. TR has taken action on certain unethical practice, and this is praise worthy. Thanks.
I see that impact factor from Thomson Reuters journals is the most popular. Even on RG, alternative impact factors have been removed, with some exceptions. RG scores take TR IF into account. (For some of us who have no IF points, we cheerfully think about our citations.)
I learned that TR is not perfect, but it's about the 'best' at this point in time. TR has taken action on certain unethical practice, and this is praise worthy. Thanks.
Thanks @Miranda. Could you please specify for which research discipline(s) you find the RG IF to correlate well with journal prestige?
The thing is that this correlation is certainly not universal (see e.g. my remarks on math journals in the question).
When we come to the Engineering discipline here there are many publishers Like Springer, Elsevier etc. which in other words are called Scopus databases and it takes long time to get published in them and they are highly prestigious too. Let us take the example of material science in Mechanical Engineering discipline, here according to me the highest impact points journal is under elsevier which is "Materials Today" it has the impact points of around 14.11 which i think is the highest in the engineering disciplne (Correct me if im wrong). So, many people try to get there works published in the above mentioned prestigious publishing company. This is from the prospect of Engineering Discipline.
All metric has its limitations. I would be more informed of an author for his/her thesis or other works developed in the centre of research or university, and secondarily for other sources of metrics.
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In my opinion, the most important factor in this matter is the Impact Factor. In addition, the Scopus indexing base obtains great significance as well as the ORCID scientific identification number.
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