The CBS LibGuide about Journal Metrics and Rankings takes you through the most commonly used journal citation indicators.
These indicators use citations as a proxy for quality and impact of a journal, and based on these ranking lists of the best journals are produced.
Note that when trying to establish the quality or impact of a specific journal, it is recommended that you supplement the citation based indicator data with data about how the journal performs in other journal rankings (see box titled "Non-citation based ranking lists").
Journal Impact Factor (JIF) is perhaps the best known and most used metric for quality ranking of scientific journals measured by how many times articles are cited.
Data: The JIF is based on Web of Science citation data. JIF's are located in Journal Citation Report, sourced from the Web of Science Core Collection
This is how you find a JIF:
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How JIF is calculated
Relevant CBS subject categories
Note that only a limited number of CBS-relevant journals are indexed in Web of Science, and thereby have a JIF. The most relevant subject categories for CBS are Economics with 371 journals, Management with 226 journals, Business with 152 journals, Business/Finance with 108 journals, and Operations Research and Management Science with 83 journals - a total of 940 CBS relevant journals.
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CiteScore is the equivalent to JIF. It is also a metric for quality ranking of scientific journals measured by how many times articles are cited.
Data: CiteScore is based on data from the citation database Scopus.
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How CiteScore is calculated
Note! The arrival of CiteScore 2019 also introduced a new and enhanced methodolody to calculate CiteScores - see below. The new methodology is used retrospectively - meaning that CiteScore values for all previous years (2011-2018) are based on the new methodology.
CiteScore is calculated as the average number of times peer reviewed publictions from the journal published in the past four years have been cited from the year of publication until the end of the calculation window which is up to four years. So CiteScore uses a 4-year citation window, as opposed to JIF's 2-year citation window. Example - Organization Science
1 decimal values
In order to avoid the impression of precision CiteScore values are only displayed to one decimal place.
Not 'field normalized'
Like JIF CiteScore is not field normalized – so only compare journals within the same field/subject category.
Number of CBS relevant journals with a CiteScore
There are more CBS-relevant journals with a CiteScore than a JIF. The most relevant CBS subject areas in Scopus are Business, Management and Accounting with 1914 journals, Computer Science with 2322 journals, Economics, Econometrics and Finance with 1304 journals and Social Sciences (Sociology and Political Science, Cultural Studies and Communication) with 2612 journals - a total of 8152 CBS relevant journals.
Links and additional info:
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When trying to establish the quality or impact of a specific journal, it is recommended that you supplement the citation based indicator data with data from other journal rankings.
Here are some examples of ranking lists of journals from CBS relevant research areas:
If you have questions about Journal Metrics, please write to metrics.lib@cbs.dk.
JIF is based on data from Web of Science, wheras CiteScore is based on data from Scopus.
CiteScore uses a 4-year citation window whereas JIF uses a 2-year citation window.
Several other journal metrics are available. These metrics address the following issues:
Note that JIF and Citescore produces more or less the same ranking of journals within a subject field, as they are calculated in very similar ways. But rankings based on more advanced metrics can be much more different!
The three most important additional journal metrics: