Databases
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Journal Citation Reports-176 subject categories for science and 56 for social science
-Browse by subject category or search by known journal name
-Find journals with the highest impact factors
-Find ranking of journals in their subject category
-Includes open access journals
- Use Manuscript Matcher to find a suitable journal to publish in -
Google Scholar-Lists of 20 top publications for major disciplines; many subcategories in each discipline
-h5-index values
-Citations to top articles in each journal
-Click on Metrics in stacked lines at top left
-Includes Metrics for open access journals -
Scopus-Compare up to 10 journals from a search results list
-Source-Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
-SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
-Impact per Publication (IPP)
-Citations to journal and trends
-Number of documents on topic in journal
-% not cited
-% reviews
-On results page, click on Analyze Search Results. Click on Source. Next, click on Compare Journals and View SJR, IPP, and SNIP data
-Includes open access journals -
CiteScore in Scopus-Metrics on over 22,000 serial titles in 330 disciplines
-Use search at this link to find journal metrics in Scopus without doing a keyword search. -
Journal Guide-Enter keywords and click on Search.
-Gives time from submission to acceptance for some journal choices.
-For Journal Name searches gives some journal-provided acceptance rates -
JANE-Enter keywords
-Click on Find Journals
-Gives journal title suggestions with some article influence scores. -
Eigenfactor-Eigenfactor Score, a measure of the journal's importance to the scientific community.
-Article Influence, a measure of the average influence, per article, of the papers in a journal; like impact factor
-Search by journal name, journal subject category
-Science, social science, and medical journals included
-Older, mapping data available by field
-Includes open access journals
-From University of Washington -
Ulrichsweb-Use Advanced Search or ISSN for a title for more precise searching
-Frequency of publication
-Content type
-Abstracting and indexing titles compilations
-Demographics of audience
-Brief reviews
-Includes open access journals -
WorldCat-Union catalog for hundreds of libraries in the U.S. and other countries
-Search by title (journal name) and find numbers of libraries worldwide with holdings -
Journal Reviewer-Turnaround time and review length given for many journals
-772 journals are covered in the social sciences
-Crowd-sourced content -
Publication Delays at PLOS and 3,475 Other Journals-From the Satoshi Village blog of Daniel Himmelstein
-Covers science journals -
SciRev-Gives duration of 1st review and total handling time for submissions to science, social science, and humanities journals
-Covers 850 journals
-From Jeroen Smits and Janine Huisman. -
Match in EndNote Online-Sign up for a free (Yale) EndNote Online account and click on Match.
-Type in title of paper and abstract and click on Find Journals
- Based on Web of Science/Journal Citation Reports journals. -
Comparing Impact Factor and Scopus CiteScoreThis essay is written by Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin West of Eigenfactor.
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Journal Targeter (Jot)A free online resource based on journals indexed by Medline. For biomedicine and medicinal botany manuscripts. Developed in consultation with Jane and Yale colleagues. Suggests journals based on title, abstract, references.
Librarian for Life Sciences
Lori Bronars
Contact:
219 Prospect St., PO Box 208111 New Haven, CT 06520-8111
Marx Science and Social Science Library | Yale University Library C38 Kline Tower
Yale University
lori.bronars@yale.edu
Office hours: Thursdays 1:30-2:30 PM in BASS 205 (when classes are in session except for 9/15 and 10/13)
Marx Science and Social Science Library | Yale University Library C38 Kline Tower
Yale University
lori.bronars@yale.edu
Office hours: Thursdays 1:30-2:30 PM in BASS 205 (when classes are in session except for 9/15 and 10/13)
203 432 6213
Subjects: Biology, Science, General
