How to find out a journal ranking, Q-level & impact factor

Thomson Reuters provides lists of journal titles which are indexed by ISI Web of Science. However, these lists only contain journal titles and ISSNs without any information related to their ranking and impact factor. To find out both information, you must observe the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) of each title. What JCR is and why JCR is important were described in 2010 Journal Citation Reports - Available Now.

JCR contains not only the journal ranking and impact factor, but also quantitative and statistical evaluations of the journal based on citation data. Thomson Reuters applies a policy that JCR is a confidential report, therefore only subscribed readers can access it.

Step-1: Open JCR Home site
If you are online using your campus internet network (which subscribes to ISI Thomson), you can directly connect to JCR HOME site. JCR front interface is shown below:

2010 Journal Citation Reports - Available Now

 

Journal Citation Reports®(JCR®) offers a systematic, objective means to critically evaluate the world's leading journals, with quantifiable, statistical information based on citation data. By compiling articles' cited references, JCR helps to measure research influence and impact at the journal and category levels, and shows the relationship between citing and cited journals.

With Journal Citation Reports You Can:

• Sort journal data by clearly defined fields: Impact Factor, Immediacy Index, Total Cites, Total Articles, Cited Half-Life, or Journal Title.
• Sort subject category data by clearly defined fields: Total Cites, Median Impact Factor, Aggregate Impact Factor, Aggregate Immediacy Index, Aggregated Cited Half-Life, Number of Journals in Category, Number of Articles in Category.

UKM Publication Reward Scheme

In order to encourage staff's publications in indexed and high impact journals, UKM provides a reward scheme for every published articles. The followings are table of rewards for each category:

SCOPUS indexed more than 19,000 titles (July 2011)

Scopus, launched in November 2004, is the largest abstract and citation database containing both peer-reviewed research literature and quality web sources. With over 19,000 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers, SciVerse Scopus offers researchers a quick, easy and comprehensive resource to support their research needs in the scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields and, more recently, also in the arts and humanities.

SciVerse Scopus at a glance July 2011:

More than 19,000 titles:

• 18,000 peer-reviewed journals (including 1,800 Open Access journals).
• 400 trade publications.
• 300 book series.

SCOPUS Journal Titles (March 2011)

PTSL has compiled lists of SCOPUS journal titles on March 2011. This lists consist of 5 categories as follows:

      1. Life Sciences
      2. Health Sciences
      3. Physical Sciences
      4. Social Sciences & Humanities
      5. Multidisciplinary

You may download them and select in which journal you will publish your article.

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ISI Journal Titles (March 2011)

Many friends asked me which journal titles are indexed by ISI Thomson. Here are the lists linked to PTSL sites.

Source Publication List for Web of Science (ISI Thomson Reuters) covers 3 categories:

      1. Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)
      2. Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)
      3. Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)

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How to write a world class paper

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Research and writing (research) report have different aspects which also need different skills. The followings are a collection of articles or presentations on how to write a world class paper from various experts:

1. How to write an abstract, Philip Koopman, Carnegie Mellon University, October, 1997
2. How to write a great research paper, Simon Peyton Jones, Microsoft Research, Cambridge
3. Publishing in journals with impact factor: Why and how, Roslan Abd Sukhor, School of Applied Sciences, UKM
4. How to write a world class methodology paper: Tips, traps & travesties, Elsevier
5. How to write a world class paper: From title to references, From submission to revision, 3 presentation files: Robert Allen, Guowang Xu and Noelle Gracy, Elsevier

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