Which journal?

Journals

Usually
journals are
ranked ISI
according to
the databases
they are
Medline
indexed and
their impact SCOPUS
factors
 Journals indexed in ISI
ISI is the most important indexing
database and journals indexed in it are
usually of high quality
Journals indexed in ISI are ranked
according to their impact factor
 Impact Factor
The higher the IF is, the harder is to get an
acceptance for a manuscript.
Be careful
The IF of journals in different disciplines can
not be compared
IF of 0.9 is actually very high for Lymphology
although it is fairly low for journals pertaining to
basic medicine
 Impact Factor
Not all journals indexed in ISI have impact
factor
Hellenic Journal of Nuclear Medicine and
Revista Espanola Medicina de Nuclear are ISI
indexed but without impact factor
These journals usually have high acceptance
rates
Try them
 Impact Factor
To find these journals you can use the site
of Thomson Reuters
 Medline

It is free and
Medline is
articles
another
indexed in
important
this
database in
database are
medical
more likely
literature
to be cited.
 Medline
Journals indexed in Medline but not in ISI
are usually easier for publication
Nuclear Medicine Review
 Bibliometrics toolkit
Scopus
Scopus was launched by Elsevier in 2004
The suite of citation analysis tools provided within Scopus is called Research Performance Management RPM
Scopus offers Live Chat to support users of the product
There are over 18,000 journal titles indexed in the product
Authors
Citation Overview Then click on View Citation Overview to create a sumary of the selected author
Use the tools provided to select one author or a group of authors you can or group of authors.
filter by affiliation, country and subject area and pick variant forms of an author
Key facts name. This is a strong feature of the product, providing assistance in isolating a The Citation Overview shows:
Key facts set of the correct research outputs, particularly where names are common. The number of documents cited in any year range 1996-current
The pattern of citation by year and total cites
The database contains over 30 million Self-citations can be removed if wished
citations The citing documents can be viewed however unlike ISI there is no analysis
Citations are only indexed from offered by geography, discipline or document type
publications from 1996 which is a The author(s) h-index is provided, based on publications 1996 onwards. For
disadvantage in comparison to the ISI suite example, there may be 16 documents found that are cited but the h-index is
of products calculated only on the 12 published from 1996
Graphs are provided for the h-index, publication count and citation count
The main calculations such as author h-
index are also only worked out cited
material from 1996 on, cites to earlier
Journals
items are discarded before calculating Journal Analyzer
Trend line showing the average number of citations per paper every year
There are 18,000+ peer reviewed titles in Pick the Analytics tab to use Journal Analyzer to select a journal title or build
Scopus - a lot more than other data sources up a group of titles. The analysis includes both graphs and tabular displays of: Two key metrics are provided: SJR which weights according to impact of the
and this makes the product better for some citing journal and SNIP which is a complex attempt to normalise based on citing
Number of articles published per year in the title(s) from 1996 to date depth and speed of citation in the discipline, plus allowing for the amount of
fields such as Engineering
Number of citations in total to the articles per year material in the source dataset. SNIP is designed to allow cross-discipline
The range of materials included is said to comparison, normally not possibly with these metrics
be better for humanities and in 2009 a Number of articles per year not cited, as a percentage
significant increase in such titles took place Selecting a number of titles allows you to see the relative performance of each,
best with the graph display
There is more European content and it
does include more languages other than Unlike JCR, this analyser does not provide ranked lists of journals for your field.
English than ISI 60% of coverage is outside However, the free SCImago website uses the Scopus data set to provide this type
the USA of ranked listing comparable to the ISI JCR product http://www.scimagojr.com/

Open Access titles, proceedings, web

pages, patents, book series are all included Articles
Each document returned in a search has an indication of the number of The citing documents can be viewed in turn as a list if desired.
Main alternative citation data sources for citations to it found in Scopus
comparison Or, for any particular article in the set, citation tracker can be used to get
Thomson Reuters ISI product suite a more detailed analysis of the citations by year for that item - as well as
including Web of Science and Journal viewing the citing articles.
Citation Reports

Google Scholar with the Publish or Perish

software application

Subject specialist databases with citation

information, available in some fields - Life
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Sciences get better coveriage in Medline for
example, Computer Science in CiteseerX or
 Some tips
General journals
Some are of very high quality
NEJM
Lancet
Science
JAMA
BMJ
These are very hard to publish an article in.
 Some tips
If you cited some articles from a journal.
That journal would be a good option for
publication consideration.
This can increase the IF of that journal
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