SJR and SNIP: two new journal metrics in Elsevier's Scopus

Adverse Drug Event Discovery Using Biomedical Literature: A Big Data Neural Network Adventure

“…For scientific journals, we combine three journal ranking indices: (1) Impact Factor [11][12], (2) Eigenfactor [13][14], and (3) SJR (Scientific Journal Ranking) [15][16]. The scoring function below is employed to calculate the score of each article.…”

RAM the PI-BETA, C3PO - what the H-STAR happened to my promotion application? Or: The pros and cons of bibliometric evaluations of researchers

“…Bollen et al (2009) Journal ranking is most commonly done using the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) (Garfield 2005) which, for a journal in year x, is the average number of citations to papers in the journal in the two years prior to x. Although numerous other measures are possible and some may well be superior (see Calver and Bryant 2008;Bollen et al 2009;Colledge et al 2010;Calver et al 2012;Chang and McAleer 2012;Vanclay 2012), journals often display JIF on their web pages. Editors may even adjust editorial policies to manipulate the JIF of their journals (Ashkanasy 2007;Falagas and Alexiou 2008).…”

“…An example is also set for younger researchers that publication is valuable at all levels. This position is reiterated by Colledge et al (2010), who point out that prolific authors often publish in journals across a wide range of impact factors, directing papers to the journals addressing their desired target audience. Lawrence (2003Lawrence ( , 2007 also asks granting bodies and departmental administrators to use hindsight.…”

Comparing the influence of ecology journals using citation-based indices: making sense of a multitude of metrics

“…Corrects for differences in publications characteristics across fields by dividing the impact factor by the database citation potential within each field of study Colledge et al (2010) *Adjustment to the original SJR sometimes referred to as SJR2 †gamma=4 and delta=1 for this study ‡Reported as AW-index by Publish or Perish Software productivity and influence of universities and departments (Fogg 2007). The most widely known metric of journal influence is the Thompson Reuters Journal Impact Factor (JIF).…”