Journal rankings use bibliometrics to measure the impact of a journal as a whole. They can be used for publication venue choices and collection building or assessment.
Journal Metrics from Scopus
Journal Impact Factor
Eigenfactor
Size, citation count and impact factor for scholarly journals in science and social science.
Scopus Sources This site offers 4 metrics on journals
Elsevier metrics are based on data from their Scopus platform. Although SHSU does not subscribe to Scopus, these metrics are made freely available online
CiteScore: Ratio: the number of citations a journal receives in one year to documents published in the previous three years, divided by the number of documents indexed in Scopus published in the same three years. Think of it as a competitor to Impact Factor, in that it uses a similar citation-based formula,
SNIP - Source-Normalized Impact per Paper: SNIP weights citations based on the number of citations in a field. If there are fewer total citations in a research field, then citations are worth more in that field.
IPP - Impact Per Publication: Also known as RIP (raw impact per publication), the IPP is used to calculate SNIP. IPP is a number of current-year citations to papers from the previous 3 years, divided by the total number of papers in those 3 previous years.
SJR- Scimago Journal & Country Rank: SCImago Journal Rank is a prestige metric based on the idea that 'all citations are not created equal'. With SJR, the subject field, quality, and reputation of the journal have a direct effect on the value of a citation.
Eigenfactor: The number of times, in the past five years, that articles from a journal have been cited in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR). The Eigenfactor score considers which journals have contributed these citations and removes journal self-citations
Journal Impact Factor
The number of citations made in the current year to articles in the previous 2 years, divided by the total number of citable articles from the previous 2 years.
The Journal Impact Factor was the first metric created for scholarly journals. Eugene Garfield first introduced the idea of an impact factor in 1955. It was used to determine the impact a particular journal has in a given field of research and published annually in Journal Citation Reports.
The Journal Impact Factor was the only metric available for many years but now other metrics are also available.
For the current Journal Citation Reports year, the median age of journal articles cited. "What is the duration of citation to articles in this journal?"
h5-index
This metric is based on the articles published by a journal over 5 calendar years. h is the largest number of articles that have each been cited h times. A journal with an h5-index of 43 has published, within a 5-year period, 43 articles that each have 43 or more citations.