Journal Rankings: Home

The purpose of this very simple page is to give the searcher an introduction to journal rankings. 

Researchers use journal rankings for many purposes but mostly they use rankings to see the quality of research from a publisher, from an author or from an institution. There are many metrics in play when it comes to ranking journals but the most common methods rely on the premise that highly cited journals contain articles that cite other highly cited journals. As articles contained in journals are cited more frequently by others, their prestige increases as does their rankings. This is often referred to as the SJR 

Over the years researchers have looked for other ways to rank a journal or journal article since once an article title is published it can take years to be cited by other researchers and generated data for rankings. Because of this citation lag they are developing other metrics. Plum Analytics analyzes social media platforms to find mentions of authors and their research. These types of social media postings happen quickly allowing us to rank the popularity of a journal, article and authors work in real time.