Library Guides: Journal Evaluation Tools: Journal Rankings

Journal Ranking Tools

Main Ranking Tools
Other Tools

Journal rankings can be very controversial and each resource has pros and cons to their use. CiteScore and SCImago are the two most heavily used tools. For publications not covered by these tools, you might want to check out Google Scholar Metrics.

CiteScore
A new, free tool for evaluating journals. Data is produced for journals, conference proceedings, and book series covered by Scopus. NOTE: CiteScore is produced by Elsevier, who publishes many high-impact journals and has the potential ability to insert bias in the results.
CWTS Journal Indicators
This is a free website. Includes SNIP Indicators information. SNIP is a European ranking that attempts to address the problems of varying citation rates among disciplines and the lack of statistics to indicate levels of significant differences. Journals included are those covered by Scopus.
Google Scholar Metrics
This tool can be used to see the most heavily cited articles in a specific publication (according to Google Scholar) and to see the median times cited for their articles. This could be helpful for finding median article citation rates for newer journals, proceedings, or other publications that are not covered by Impact Factors.
SCImago Journal & Country Rank
This portal includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus® database. These indicators could be used to assess and analyze scientific domains, similar to Google PageRank.

ABS Academic Journal Guide
Ranks academic business journals. Put together by the Chartered Association of Business Schools.
Eigenfactor
Eigenfactor ranks journals much as Google ranks websites. It uses data from the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) database as part of creating the Eigenfactor score. It eliminates self-citations and every reference from one article in a journal to another article from the same journal is discounted. This site provides rankings for all the JCR journals as well as references cited by those journals.
European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences (ERIH PLUS)
They do not "rank" journals in these areas; however, to be included in ERIH PLUS, journals have to meet certain benchmarks - see the About page for details.
Journal Quality List
The Journal Quality List comprises academic journals in the following broad areas: Economics, Finance, Accounting, Management, and Marketing. It is a collation of journal rankings from a variety of sources.
Science Gateway
Includes high-impact journal lists and U.S. university rankings. Data based on SCImago. Originally only covered biomedical sciences, but has expanded to cover a wide range of sciences and social sciences areas.