Having Trouble Discovering the Perfect Journal for Your Research Undertaking?
Choosing the ideal journal is essential for amplifying the influence of your findings.Thankfully, numerous esteemed publishers provide journal-finding tools designed to align your work with the perfect venue for publication.
Presented below are some valuable journal selection resources from prominent publishers:
Search engine optimization (SEO) is needed to let our website, blog or company website to be seen on the search engine (EG: Google, Bing or Yahoo) result page. Journal indexing has a similar concept and idea on the journal article.
Journal must increase their visibility, availability and readership
One of the ways is by which journals can achieve this is by getting their publication indexed by one or more leading databases.
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Why is Journal Indexing Essential?
it will increase it’s the accessibility to a wider audience
Being accessible in turn will improve your journal’s reputation as a reliable source of high-quality information in your field
Database research / deep web search the first activity researchers /Ph.D. students will undergo.
Being indexed in a known database in your field will help increase your journal’s readership
How does Journal Indexing Work?
Once a journal is indexed by a database, it is immediately made available to all users of that database
Some databases index titles, some index full articles while some others index only the abstract and/ or references. Web of science and Scopus only give you the title, volume, issues and abstract. They do not provide the full-text pdf. ScienceDirect is like Lazada or Shopee. Science direct let users download. Web of science and Scopus provide the researcher with some basic idea.
There are several abstracting and indexing services available today
Some are affiliated with institutions while some are provided by publishers.
The name of databases can be accessed by the Science Citation Index (SCI)/ Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)/ Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)
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Emerging Sources citation index (ESCI) by Web of science
The new index within the web of science core collection
Same features set and indexing standards as other core collection editions
Full cover to cover indexing of all content
Not in JCR (ESCI journals do not receive impact factors)
No quality journals
Journal Metrics (Citation Impact)
Journal Metrics
Publisher
Formula
Elgenfactor
Web of Science
Article influence (AI)
Web of Science
Outputs in top percentiles
Journal Impact Factor (IF)
Web of Science
2016 impact factor = 2016 citations to 2014 and 2015 content / total # citable items published in 2014 and 2015
Scimago Journal Rank (SJR)
SCOPUS
number of citations in a year / the total of articles published during the 3 years before.
Journal Source Normalised Citation Impact (SNIP)
SCOPUS
the number of citations given in the present year to publications in the past three years / the total number of publications in the past three years
Citescore
SCOPUS
citescore 2015 = citation received in 2015 for the documents published in 2012, 2013 and 2014 / sum of documents published in the title in 2012, 2013 or 2014 (all document types are included except articles pending)
Search the journal name. If the coverage is SCI / SCIE / SSCI, these journals will be calculated in impact factors.
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How to Check Journal Metrics from Scopus?
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What is Malaysia Research Assessment Instrument (MyRA)?
It is a comprehensive system developed to assess the research capacity and performance of all Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Malaysia. Under the policy of MyRA, there are two important journals “search engine “:
