Jacso, P. 2010. Comparison of journal impact rankings in the SCImago Journal & Country Rank and the Journal Citation Reports databases. ONLINE INFORMATION REVIEW 34 (4): 642-657

[Eugene Garfield]

Jacso, P. 2010. Comparison of journal impact rankings in the SCImago Journal & 
Country Rank and the Journal Citation Reports databases. ONLINE 
INFORMATION REVIEW 34 (4): 642-657.

Author Full Name(s): Jacso, Peter
Language: English
Document Type: Article

Author Keywords: Electronic journals; User studies; Open systems
KeyWords Plus: H-INDEX; SCOPUS; INDICATORS; COVERAGE; WEB; 
PRODUCTIVITY; EIGENFACTOR; SCIENCE; CONS; PROS

Abstract: Purpose The purpose of this paper is to compare the journal impact 
rankings of the open access SCImago Journal & County Rank (SIR) database 
and the subscription-based Journal Citation Reports (ICR).
Design/methodology/approach - The paper looks at the SIR database which 
offers essential scientometric information for more than 17,000 scholarly and 
professional journals based on data licensed from Elsevier's Scopus database 
and compares this with the JCR database.
Findings - The open access SIR database offers very informative new insights 
to complement those that have been provided by the JCR for more than three 
decades by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) and its successor, the 
Thomson (later Thomson-Reuters) company. Especially valuable are its features 
of weighting the citations received based on the prestige of the citing journals, 
the (partial) exclusion of journal self-citations, and the broader base of source 
journals. They provide new opportunities to analyse and understand their 
effects on the ranking of journals.
Originality/value - The paper provides useful information on the open access 
SIR and JCR databases and their effects on the ranking of journals.

Addresses: Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA
Reprint Address: Jacso, P, Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA.

ISSN: 1468-4527
DOI: 10.1108/14684521011073034
URL (not open access): http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?
articleid=1876484&show=abstract