Research Process

You can use Google to find impact factors for individual journals and for rankings by subject areas. For example, entering "Journal of Business Research impact factor" will display the impact factor in the search results as shown below.

You could also try searching more broadly for business journals. For example, entering "business journals impact factors" will display results form several different websites with impact factor rankings. Shown below is a ranking of business journals by impact factor from Social Capital Gateway.


 

Follow the instructions below to find impact factor using the Library’s SAGE Journals database.

1. Go to A-Z Databases, select “S” and then click on SAGE Journals.
2. Enter the journal title using the basic search box in the center of the screen. You can also browse journals by discipline or alphabetically.
3. Press search.
4. From the results screen, click on the Journals tab (defaults to Articles tab).
5. Click on your journal title.
6. Go to the "About" drop-down menu and select "More Information."
7. The impact factor will appear below the journal title as shown below.

Follow the instructions below to find impact factor using the Library’s Wiley Online Library database.

1. Go to A-Z Databases, select “W” and then click on Wiley Online Library.
2. Enter the journal title using the basic search box in the center of the screen. You can also browse journals by title or subject by clicking on "1,600+ Journals."
3. Press search.
4. Select your journal from the list of results.
5. The impact factor will appear under the journal's editor name as shown below.

Follow the instructions below to find impact factor using the Library’s ScienceDirect Journals database.

1. Go to A-Z Databases, select “S” and then click on ScienceDirect Journals.
2. Enter the journal title using the journal/book title box at the top of the screen.
3. Press search.
4. Locate your journal from the list of results, or under "Suggested publications."
5. The impact factor will appear next to the journal image as shown below.

Follow the instructions below to find impact factor using the Library’s Annual Reviews database.

1. Go to A-Z Databases and then click on Annual Reviews.
2. Hover over Journals A-Z to see a list of all journals.
3. Click on your journal title.
4. The impact factor will appear above the journal description as shown below.

Note that Library subscribes to the following Annual Reviews titles only.

Annual Review of Anthropology
Annual Review of Clinical Psychology
Annual Review of Environment and Resources
Annual Review of Law and Social Science
Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior
Annual Review of Political Science
Annual Review of Psychology
Annual Review of Public Health
Annual Review of Sociology

Follow the instructions below to find a journal's ranking using the Library’s Web of Knowledge database.

1. Go to A-Z Databases, select “W” and then click on Web of Knowledge.
2. Enter the journal title using the basic search box in the center of the screen. The default search is set to Topic. Click on the drop down menu and select "Publication Name." A link to search the index is also available beneath the search field.  
3. Press search.
4. From the results screen, click on the journal title located beneath the article title. 
5. The journal ranking will appear below the article record as shown below.

The quartile is given as either Q1, Q2, Q3, or Q4 where Q1 indicates that the journal is in the top 25% of its subject category while Q4 indicates it is in the bottom 25% of the journals in that category.

Google Scholar Metrics provides a way for researchers to easily assess article visibility and influence. Google Scholar Metrics has compiled a list of the top 100 Publications in Several Languages. The publications in this list are ranked by their 5 year h-index and h-median metrics. By clicking on the number under the h-index, you can view a list of that publication's most cited articles as well as who cited them. 

Example: Click on the h-index number to view the most cited articles within the publication, Nature.

This will identify a list of those articles in addition to the subcategory under which Google Scholar Metrics has labeled Nature.

Google Scholar has also compiled lists of the top publications within the following fields. Each category maintains supplemental subcategories as well. Please note that these are only English-language lists at the moment. 

1. Business, Economics, & Management
2. Chemical & Material Sciences
3. Engineering & Computer Sciences
4. Health & Medical Sciences
5. Humanities, Literature, & the Arts
6. Life Sciences & Earth Sciences
7. Physics & Mathematics
8. Social Sciences

Click here to learn more about Google Scholar Metrics. 

The Microsoft Academic Search Engine offers Journal Rankings based on the dynamic eigencentrality measurement. The Journal Analytics feature automatically extracts information from publications and their metadata. Journals are indexed in a variety of disciplines, and are more likely to be included if they are easily discoverable on the web.

Microsoft Academic's Journal Analytics allows users to filter by the following measurements:

• Saliency
• Prestige
• Citations
• Publications
• h-index

Users can also filter by topic, year, and keyword search. 

To access the Journal Analytics from the Microsoft Academic main page, click on 'Journals' located to the right of the screen. This will redirect you to the Journal Analytics page. 

Eigenfactor.org is an academic research project sponsored by the Bergstrom Lab in the Department of Biology at the University of Washington with the purpose of ranking and mapping scientific knowledge. Eigenfactor Scores and Article Influence Scores are calculated similarly to the methodology used by Google to rank webpages. Scholarly references link journals together in a large network of citations and allows for a comparison across disciplines.

The Eigenfactor Score measures the number of times articles from the journal published in the past five years have been cited in the JCR year. Eigenfactor scores are intended to give a measure of how likely a journal is to be used, and are thought to reflect how frequently an average researcher would access content from that journal.

The Article Influence Score calculates measures the relative importance of the journal on a per-article basis.

Follow the steps below to search a database of Eigenfactor and Article Influence scores from 1997 to 2015.

1. Go to http://www.eigenfactor.org/projects/journalRank/journalsearch.php
2. Enter the journal name and click "Find Journal."
3. The Eigenfactor and Article Influence scores will be displayed on the results list as shown below.

Developed by J.E. Hirsch, the h-index is a number intended to represent both the productivity and the impact of a particular scientist or scholar, or a group of scientists or scholars (such as a departmental or research group). The h-index is calculated by counting the number of publications for which the scientist has been cited by other authors at least that same number of times. In comparison with the ISI Impact factor, the h index corrects for highly cited papers not found in highly cited journals. This presents an unbiased way of comparing people within a discipline, especially in the sciences. 

Web of Knowledge

Follow the instructions below to find h index using the Library’s Web of Knowledge database.

1. Go to A-Z Databases, select “W” and then click on Web of Knowledge.
2. Enter your journal title and select Publication Name from the drop-down menu.
3. Click search.
4. Check that the target title is the only journal listed under Refine Results > Source Titles in the left-hand side column (toward bottom). If not, tick the box next to the target title and Refine.
5. Select Create Citation Report on the top right.
6. h-index appears in the second box at the top as shown below.

Scimago Journal & Country Rank

Follow the instructions below to find h index using the Scimago Journal & Country Rank website.

1. Go to https://www.scimagojr.com/
2. Enter journal title e.g. "organization studies" and press search.
3. Select the appropriate journal title from the results list.
4. h index appears in the upper right, as shown below.

Google Scholar
Google Scholar has adapted the h-index method of impact. h5-index is the h-index for articles published in the last 5 complete years. It is the largest number h such that h articles published in 2013-2017 have at least h citations each. You can browse the top 100 publications in several languages, ordered by their five-year h-index and h-median metrics.

Follow the instructions below to find h index using Google Scholar Metrics.

1. Go to https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=top_venues&hl=en
2. Click on the Categories drop-down menu to select a broad subject.
3. Select a subcategory if desired.
4. The h5 index is displayed for the top journals in that category or subcategory as shown below.

CWTS Journal Indicators provides free access to bibliometric indicators on scientific journals. The indicators have been calculated by Leiden University’s Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) based on the Scopus bibliographic database produced by Elsevier. Indicators are available for over 20,000 journals indexed in the Scopus database.

A key indicator offered by CWTS Journal Indicators is the SNIP indicator, where SNIP stands for source normalized impact per paper. This indicator measures the average citation impact of the publications of a journal. Unlike the well-known journal impact factor, SNIP corrects for differences in citation practices between scientific fields, thereby allowing for more accurate between-field comparisons of citation impact. CWTS Journal Indicators also provides stability intervals that indicate the reliability of the SNIP value of a journal. More information on the indicators offered by CWTS Journal Indicators is available on their Methodology page.

Follow the instructions below to locate SNIP using the CWTS Journal Indicators website.

1. Go to http://www.journalindicators.com/indicators
2. Enter the journal title in the "Search for" box.
3. The journal results appear at the bottom of the page and includes the SNIP value as shown in the first image below.
4. You may also click on the journal title to view a graph as shown in the second image.