Dear All,
I'm a DBA student. I'm surprised to see very different results from different resources regarding to a journal's impact index and rank. May I ask which source is your best choice to find journals' impact index and rank? It would be great if you could explain more about why, and how do you make good use of the information of journal ranking then. By the way, the 'very different results' came from my search for the name 'Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing' in Academic Journal Guide 2018 (33 pages) and InCites Journal Citation Reports 2020 (294 pages), I found it ranked '2' in AJG2018 but NOT included in JCR2020.
Your kind response will help me a lot. Thanks in advance!
All the best,
Emma
Thank you Ibrahim Niftiyev for your reply. It makes sense. Scimagojr.com does provide great details of a journal's ranking. And I just found out that it covers up to 30891 journals, powered by Scopus. Cool!
It's interesting to find Harzing & VanDerWal's (2013) paper as attached, that compared Google Scholar's h-Index system with Web of knowledge's ISI JIF on journals' ranking in the field of Economics and Business. I think it might be able to explain the 'very different results' in my question.
According to the paper, these four factors lead to the divergence of the two ranking metrics, different time frames, different sensitivity to individual high cited papers, different scopes of coverage especially for grey literatures, and h-index's bigger potetial to reflect broader impact in the field. So the authors prefer GS h-index for journals impact index and rank in economics and business.
And, if I understand right, the h-index metrics is part of Scimago's ranking system supported by a huge database of Scopus. No wonder, it's our 'best choice'...
Wish to find more related articles on this topic, I'm curious. :)
Thank you Professor Muna Abbas Ahmed ! Would you mind sharing a bit more about your using Scimago, like how often you use it, for what purpose, what particular information on it is useful for you? Anything would be appreciated! Good day.
Hirsch's (2005) paper about the 'h-index' is full of inspiration!
Dear Xiangdian Emma Chen The simplest one is https://www.scimagojr.com
But keep in mind that Scimago website is updated twice a year, so it is better to double check with scopus website.
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