My reference to check on a journal's information
I usually check a journal's ranking through JCR for ISI journals
So, from the front page, you will see this
Select the preferences that you would like to search here.
If you would like to search a specific group of journals, keep the first bullet on the right and submit. Choose the groups that you would like to see, and the list will come out.
If you want to see all journals in this JCR, select the third bullet. Or you can check a specific journal using the second, if you just want to know a particular journal.
And here is a sample result page of the searched journals:
Select a journal that you want to see, there will be a lot of information related to the journal. Some of the info that I might be interested in:
Journal Information
Here you can have a lot of information about the publisher, in what categories does it belongs to, and the journal ranking.
Citations Information
At the top of the page, you can see a table providing information on 'how much this journal gives an impact to the area'
Journal Ranking
If you click 'Journal Ranking' box in at the Journal Information, a new page will show up - where you can find which quartile the journal falls into. For example, this IEEE Transactions of Fuzzy Systems is ranked in Q1, first quartile for both Computer Science and Electrical & Electronic Engineering categories.
I usually check a journal's ranking through JCR for ISI journals
So, from the front page, you will see this
Select the preferences that you would like to search here.
If you would like to search a specific group of journals, keep the first bullet on the right and submit. Choose the groups that you would like to see, and the list will come out.
If you want to see all journals in this JCR, select the third bullet. Or you can check a specific journal using the second, if you just want to know a particular journal.
And here is a sample result page of the searched journals:
Select a journal that you want to see, there will be a lot of information related to the journal. Some of the info that I might be interested in:
Journal Information
Here you can have a lot of information about the publisher, in what categories does it belongs to, and the journal ranking.
Citations Information
At the top of the page, you can see a table providing information on 'how much this journal gives an impact to the area'
Journal Ranking
If you click 'Journal Ranking' box in at the Journal Information, a new page will show up - where you can find which quartile the journal falls into. For example, this IEEE Transactions of Fuzzy Systems is ranked in Q1, first quartile for both Computer Science and Electrical & Electronic Engineering categories.
The highest ranking is in Quartile 1 (Q1), means this journal is very high ranked among the journals in its category.
Impact Factor
The impact factor as defined in Wikipedia, as well as other measures change every year.
The impact factor (IF) of an academic journal is a measure reflecting the average number of citations to recent articles published in that journal.
The more citations a journal has, the higher the impact factor will be. High citations could mean the journal is very good by having a lot of articles being referenced by other articles. Can you imagine your paper is being cited/referenced by other people? Don't you feel good?
I am yet to learn other terms, but so far these are the information that I have been using for now.
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