Research Guides: Publishing: Journal impact

Finding Out a Journal's Impact Factor

Journal Metrics
Shows over 25,000 titles analyzed by Scopus. Users can filter on OA journals.
Scimago Journal & Country Rank
Rankings for science journals and the countries that are publishing. Journals can be grouped by subject area (27 major thematic areas), subject category (313 specific subject categories) or by country. Citation data is drawn from over 34,100 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers and country performance metrics from 239 countries worldwide.

Reliability of Impact Factor

Greenwood, D. C. (2007). Reliability of journal impact factor rankings. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 7(48), 48.

Howard, J. (2009). Humanities journals confront identity crisis. The Chronicle of Higher Education, 55(19), A1

Satyanarayana, K. & Sharma, A. (2008). Impact factor: Time to move on. The Indian Journal of Medical Research, 127(1), 4-6.

Seglen, P. O. (1997). Why the impact factor of journals should not be used for evaluating research. British Medical Journal, 314(7079), 498-502.

Identifying Predatory or Low-Quality Journals

Predatory journals are part of an exploitive open access publishing business model involving charging authors publication fees without providing editorial and other publishing services associated with legitimate journals (open access or not).

Beyond Beall’s List: Better understanding predatory publishers by Monica Berger and Jill Cirasella in College & Research Libraries News, March 2015. doi:https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.76.3.9277
Information Sources and Indicators for the Assessment of Journal Reputation and Impact by William H. Walters, in The Reference Librarian 57(1): 2016, 13-22.
Journal Guide's White List Journal Guide's blog post on why it implemented a verification process for journals to help reduce the uncertainty of knowing if a journal is predatory or not.