Identifying Potential Journals
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Indexes over 19,000 open access journals. To identify journals that might be of interest to academic business librarians, use the "Subject" filter. - Harzing Journal Quality List
Presents a collation of 10 journal rankings in the broad area of Economics, Finance, Accounting, Management, and Marketing. - Cabells Journalytics
Source for journal characteristics, evaluation metrics, and submission details. Available through institutional subscription only. Institutions with Cabells Journalytics access may not include all disciplinary collections.
Evaluating a Journal or Publisher
- Think. Check. Submit.A website with steps to ensure you choose trusted journals for your research.
- Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly PublishingGuidelines from the nonprofit organization Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
- How to Assess a JournalInfographic from the Canadian Association of Research Libraries.
- Journal Evaluation ToolThis rubric developed by the Loyola Marymount University Library focuses on evaluating Open Access journals, but can be applied broadly to identify publishing opportunities.
Journal Impact Factor & Other Metrics
You may employ impact measures to choose a journal in which to publish because these measures can be seen as a proxy for quality or influence within a field. There are drawbacks and limitations to all measures of impact, so it is important to understand these and use metrics accordingly.
A common measure is Journal Impact Factor (JIF), which is published annually by Journal Citation Reports (JCR), now owned by Clarivate. JCR is a subscription database, and may not be available at your library. Other common metrics and their sources are listed below.
To learn more about measuring impact, see:
- "The Agony and the Ecstasy—The History and Meaning of the Journal Impact Factor," presented by Eugene Garfield at the International Congress on Peer Review And Biomedical Publication in 2005.
- "Using the New ACRL Framework for Impactful Scholarship and Metrics," 2021 recording of ACRL Presents webcast, presented by Rachel Borchardt, Alex Hodges, and Jennifer Matthews
- ACRL Scholarly Communication Toolkit: Measuring Impact
- Journal Citation Reports
Journal Citation Reports, publisher of the Journal Impact Factor, allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 11,000 scholarly and technical journals. - Scimago Journal and Country Rank
Reports various metrics including the SJR (SCImago Journal Rank) indicator, which expresses the average number of weighted citations received in the selected year by the documents published in the selected journal in the three previous years. - Scopus Preview Journal Metrics
Elsevier's Scopus Preview provides various measures of citation impact including CiteScore, percentile, and SCImago Journal Rank (SJR). - EIGENFACTOR.org
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. - Google Scholar Metrics
Provides an easy way for authors to quickly gauge the visibility and influence of scholarly publications, based on citation of recent articles indexed by Google Scholar. Browse the top 100 publications in several languages, or select the "Categories" menu to browse by discipline.
