Scholarly Communication Toolkit

Produced with the help of over 40 early career researchers, editors, journalist and grant body representatives, this guide will help early career researchers understand how the peer review process works, some of the limitations of peer review and the role of peer review in society.

This site helps determine the eigenfactor, which is a score to help measure the journal's total importance to the scientific community. Eigenfactor is an alternate journal ranking system to ISI’s impact factor. It is based on an algorithm that weights the number of citations, which journals they are coming from and how those journals are ranked. This approach ranks journals much as Google ranks Web pages to determine which journals are more influential.

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 can be used to assess and analyze scientific domains.

Journal Citation Reports are the source of Impact Factor, which calculates the reach of a journal based on the average number of times each article in the journal has been cited during the past 2 years.
To obtain a report of Impact Factor for a journal from the Journal Citation Reports, contact the library and we will provide a print out.

A video by AHU librarian Neal Smith demonstrating how to use 3 key indicators to evaluate the quality of an open access journal and avoid predatory journals.

This site helps determine the eigenfactor, which is a score to help measure the journal's total importance to the scientific community. Eigenfactor is an alternate journal ranking system to ISI’s impact factor. It is based on an algorithm that weights the number of citations, which journals they are coming from and how those journals are ranked. This approach ranks journals much as Google ranks Web pages to determine which journals are more influential.

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 can be used to assess and analyze scientific domains.