Library Orientation for Residents and Fellows

You can access the following journal metrics via Scopus:

• Total citations
• SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper)
• SJR (SCImago Journal Rank) indicator
• H-index (Hirsch index)

For definitions of these metrics, click here.

Scope

• Articles published since 1996
• 22,000 publications in science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities
• Journals published in North and South America, Africa, Australia, Europe, and Asia

Limitations

• Limited primarily to journals in English

You can access the following journal metrics via Google Scholar:

• H-index (Hirsch index)
• H5-index
• H-core
• H5-core
• H-median
• H5-median

For definitions of these metrics, click here.

Scope

• Articles published from 2009 to 2013
• Articles in journals which published greater than 100 articles between 2009 and 2013

Limitations

• Small journals (i.e., those that publish fewer than 100 articles in a 5 year span) are not represented
• Journals whose websites do not comply with Google Scholar's inclusion criteria are not represented (as they cannot be accurately indexed)
• Limited primarily to journals in English

While Ulrich's does not provide actual metrics, it includes comprehensive publication information and reviews which may help authors decide where to publish. This includes:

• Price
• Publisher information
• Index and abstract services in which articles from the journal appear (i.e., Will my article be listed in a well-known database, like PubMed?)

Scope

• Over 300,000 periodicals, including academic/scholarly, peer-reviewed, popular magazines, and newspapers.
• Over 900 subject areas.

Limitations

• Primarily covers journals published in the United States