The SCImago Journal & Country Rank is a portal that includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus® database (Elsevier B.V.). These indicators could be used to assess and analyze scientific domains.
This platform takes its name from the SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) indicatorpdf, developed by SCImago from the widely known algorithm Google PageRank™. This indicator shows the visibility of the journals contained in the Scopus® database from 1996.
A natural question for me, then, is: How does Information Research show up in this new ranking? So, I took the journals that are similar to Information Research, in that they are not 'niche' journals, but publish widely across information science, information management, librarianship, etc., from ISI's Journal Citation Reports and then gathered the data from SCImago. To reduce the effort of creating a table (not as easy in Blogger as it is in Free-Conversant) I have taken the top 10 journals from the list:
Journal h-index SJR cites/doc JIF
Info & Mgt 29 0.069 3.65 2.119
Journal of ASIST 27 0.068 2.48 1.555
Info Pro & Mgt 27 0.058 2.11 1.546
J of Doc 23 0.058 1.61 1.439
Info Research 12 0.053 1.77 0.870
Lib & Info Sci Res 14 0.053 1.26 1.059
Int J Info Mgt 18 0.051 1.55 0.754
Lib Qly 14 0.051 1.23 0.528
J Info Sci 17 0.051 1.01 0.852
Lib Trends 14 0.050 0.85 0.545
The use of the h-index is well known in the bibliometrics fraternity and is normally used to measure the productivity and impact of an individual scholar. One of its problems, particularly significant in ranking journals, is that the longer the period in which the scholar (journal) has been active, the more likely it is that the scholar (journal) will receive a high h-index, so it's usefulness here may be limited. However, it is interesting to see that Information Research has an h-index of 12, while older journals have lower measures.
The SJR measure is explained as,
...an indicator that expresses the number of connections that a journal receives through the citation of its documents divided between the total of documents published in the year selected by the publication, weighted according to the amount of incoming and outgoing connections of the sources.
The 'cites/doc' measure is based the number of citations received in the previous four years and the total number of documents published in 2006.
JIF is the ISI Journal Impact Factor.
1 comments:
SCImago Journal Rank is BETTER in my opinion and more democratic and will crash the Monopoly of ISI!
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