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Monday, May 7, 2018
Wednesday, July 19, 2017
Making your article visible with SEO
Make sure your article gets the attention it deserves.
Is your article hiding among millions of others, difficult to find and not being read as a result? If it is, you’re not alone; great research can go relatively unnoticed if it’s not highlighted and indexed in the right way.
Read the Top tips!
Is your article hiding among millions of others, difficult to find and not being read as a result? If it is, you’re not alone; great research can go relatively unnoticed if it’s not highlighted and indexed in the right way.
Read the Top tips!
2017 Scholar Metrics Released
Scholar Metrics provide an easy way for authors to quickly gauge the visibility and influence of recent articles in scholarly publications. GS is releasing the 2017 version of Scholar Metrics. This release covers articles published in 2012–2016 and includes citations from all articles that were indexed in Google Scholar as of June 2017.
To get started, you can browse the top 100 publications in several languages, ordered by their five-year h-index and h-median metrics. To see which articles in a publication were cited the most and who cited them, click on its h-index number to view the articles as well as the citations underlying the metrics.
You can also explore publications in research areas of your interest. To browse publications in a broad area of research, select one of the areas in the left column. For example: Top publications for FINANCE category.
To get started, you can browse the top 100 publications in several languages, ordered by their five-year h-index and h-median metrics. To see which articles in a publication were cited the most and who cited them, click on its h-index number to view the articles as well as the citations underlying the metrics.
You can also explore publications in research areas of your interest. To browse publications in a broad area of research, select one of the areas in the left column. For example: Top publications for FINANCE category.
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
Blacklist of predatory journals: Jeffrey Beall’s list is dead, Cabell's paying list is live
Five months after Jeffrey Beall shut down his widely consulted blog that listed predatory journals and publishers, Cabell’s International launched Cabell’s Blacklist, a list of predatory journals, on June 15.
Read more: https://www.nature.com/news/pay-to-view-blacklist-of-predatory-journals-set-to-launch-1.22090
Read more: https://www.nature.com/news/pay-to-view-blacklist-of-predatory-journals-set-to-launch-1.22090
Monday, June 26, 2017
Top journals by impact factor - Latest JCR is released
From the press release:
The 2017 release, with 2016 citation data for literature within
the sciences and social sciences, features 11,459 journal listings in 236
disciplines; 81 countries are represented. A total of 132 journals received
their first JIF.
Below, top 10 journals for Management by impact factor:
1. Academy of Management Annals
2. Academy of Management Review
3. Journal of Management
4. Academy of Management Journal
5. MIS Quarterly
6. Annual Review of Organizational Psychology & Organizational Behavior
7. Journal of Information Technology
8. Journal of International Business Studies
9. Journal of Supply Chain Management
10. International Journal of Management Reviews
Source: InCites
Monday, January 2, 2017
2016 Google Scholar Metrics
This year's release covers "articles published between 2011 and 2015, both inclusive. The metrics are based on citations from all articles that were indexed in Google Scholar in June 2016.
This also includes citations from articles that are not themselves covered by Scholar Metrics."
Methodology, coverage and inclusion criteria are available from this page.
1. Journal
of Business Research
2. Journal of Marketing
3. Journal of Consumer Research
4. Industrial Marketing Management
5. Journal of Marketing Research
6. Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science
7. European Journal of Marketing
8. Journal of Consumer Psychology
9. Marketing Science
10. Journal of Retailing
3. Journal of Consumer Research
4. Industrial Marketing Management
5. Journal of Marketing Research
6. Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science
7. European Journal of Marketing
8. Journal of Consumer Psychology
9. Marketing Science
10. Journal of Retailing
Browse the top 100 publications
Altmetric Unveils Top 100 Research Papers of the Year
Altmetric released its annual
Top 100 list of
published research papers that have generated significant online attention and
discussion from all over the world, including from post-publication peer-review
forums, patient advocacy groups, mainstream news media, and social media.
Article #1 - United States Health Care Reform: Progress to Date and Next Steps
Article #2 - Medical error—the third leading cause of death in the US
Article #3 - Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
In the past year, Altmetric has tracked over 17 million mentions of 2.7 million different research outputs. These are the top 100 most-discussed journal articles of 2016.
Article #1 - United States Health Care Reform: Progress to Date and Next Steps
Article #2 - Medical error—the third leading cause of death in the US
Article #3 - Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
In the past year, Altmetric has tracked over 17 million mentions of 2.7 million different research outputs. These are the top 100 most-discussed journal articles of 2016.
Thursday, February 11, 2016
Journal Impact Factor: what - or who - makes a citable item?

Citable items are part of the calculations used to create the Journal Impact Factor of academic publications.
Citable Items: The Contested Impact Factor Denominator
Monday, February 1, 2016
The teaching score: a new metric?
This article from the New York Times present the Open Syllabus Project
The Syllabus Explorer tool lets users search 1 million syllabi, used in the past 10 years, mostly in the US and English speaking countries, and presents a teaching score metric:
Top 3 textbooks all fields combined:
The Syllabus Explorer tool lets users search 1 million syllabi, used in the past 10 years, mostly in the US and English speaking countries, and presents a teaching score metric:
"Teaching Score’ (TS) is a numerical indicator of the frequency with which a particular work is taught. Overall Teaching Score is based on the rank of the text among citations in the total collection;"Top 3 textbooks for Business:
Top 3 textbooks all fields combined:
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