Journals & Ranking

An academic journal or research journal is a periodical publication in which research articles relating to a particular academic discipline is published, according to Wikipedia. Currently, there are more than 25,000 peer-reviewed journals that are indexed in citation index databases such as Scopus and Web of Science. These indexes are ranked on the basis of various metrics such as CiteScore, H-index, etc. The metrics are calculated from yearly citation data of the journal. A lot of efforts are given to make a metric that reflects the journal's quality.

Journal Ranking Dataset

This is a comprehensive dataset on the academic journals coving their metadata information as well as citation, metrics, and ranking information. Detailed data on their subject area is also given in this dataset. The dataset is collected from the following indexing databases: - Scimago Journal Ranking - Scopus - Web of Science Master Journal List

The data is collected by scraping and then it was cleaned, details of which can be found in HERE.

Key Features

• Rank: Overall rank of journal (derived from sorted SJR index).
• Title: Name or title of journal.
• OA: Open Access or not.
• Country: Country of origin.
• SJR-index: A citation index calculated by Scimago.
• CiteScore: A citation index calculated by Scopus.
• H-index: Hirsh index, the largest number h such that at least h articles in that journal were cited at least h times each.
• Best Quartile: Top Q-index or quartile a journal has in any subject area.
• Best Categories: Subject areas with top quartile.
• Best Subject Area: Highest ranking subject area.
• Best Subject Rank: Rank of the highest ranking subject area.
• Total Docs.: Total number of documents of the journal.
• Total Docs. 3y: Total number of documents in the past 3 years.
• Total Refs.: Total number of references of the journal.
• Total Cites 3y: Total number of citations in the past 3 years.
• Citable Docs. 3y: Total number of citable documents in the past 3 years.
• Cites/Doc. 2y: Total number of citations divided by the total number of documents in the past 2 years.
• Refs./Doc.: Total number of references divided by the total number of documents.
• Publisher: Name of the publisher company of the journal.
• Core Collection: Web of Science core collection name.
• Coverage: Starting year of coverage.
• Active: Active or inactive.
• In-Press: Articles in press or not.
• ISO Language Code: Three-letter ISO 639 code for language.
• ASJC Codes: All Science Journal Classification codes for the journal.

Rest of the features provide further details on the journal's subject area or category: - Life Sciences: Top level subject area. - Social Sciences: Top level subject area. - Physical Sciences: Top level subject area. - Health Sciences: Top level subject area. - 1000 General: ASJC main category. - 1100 Agricultural and Biological Sciences: ASJC main category. - 1200 Arts and Humanities: ASJC main category. - 1300 Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: ASJC main category. - 1400 Business, Management and Accounting: ASJC main category. - 1500 Chemical Engineering: ASJC main category. - 1600 Chemistry: ASJC main category. - 1700 Computer Science: ASJC main category. - 1800 Decision Sciences: ASJC main category. - 1900 Earth and Planetary Sciences: ASJC main category. - 2000 Economics, Econometrics and Finance: ASJC main category. - 2100 Energy: ASJC main category. - 2200 Engineering: ASJC main category. - 2300 Environmental Science: ASJC main category. - 2400 Immunology and Microbiology: ASJC main category. - 2500 Materials Science: ASJC main category. - 2600 Mathematics: ASJC main category. - 2700 Medicine: ASJC main category. - 2800 Neuroscience: ASJC main category. - 2900 Nursing: ASJC main category. - 3000 Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: ASJC main category. - 3100 Physics and Astronomy: ASJC main category. - 3200 Psychology: ASJC main category. - 3300 Social Sciences: ASJC main category. - 3400 Veterinary: ASJC main category. - 3500 Dentistry: ASJC main category. - 3600 Health Professions: ASJC main category.

Academic journals indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus database (Elsevier B.V.). These indicators can be used to assess and analyze scientific domains.

Data collected from https://www.shanghairanking.com/rankings/arwu/2020 on August 12, 2021.

The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) was first published in June 2003 by the Center for World-Class Universities (CWCU), Graduate School of Education (formerly the Institute of Higher Education) of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, and updated on an annual basis. Since 2009 the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) has been published and copyrighted by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy. ShanghaiRanking Consultancy is a fully independent organization on higher education intelligence and not legally subordinated to any universities or government agencies. ARWU uses six objective indicators to rank world universities, including the number of alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, number of highly cited researchers selected by Clarivate Analytics, number of articles published in journals of Nature and Science, number of articles indexed in Science Citation Index - Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, and per capita performance of a university. More than 1800 universities are actually ranked by ARWU every year and the best 1000 are published.

The shift toward a post-capitalist, knowledge-based economy has created an increasingly competitive academic environment, where the success of faculty members relies on their research productivity. This study aimed to identify the key factors that determine the research productivity of researchers ranked among the top 2% of scientists worldwide, according to Stanford University, who are working at Saudi universities. The study employed multiple linear regression on a sample of 441 researchers. The impact of 13 independent variables on the h-index, used as the dependent variable, was tested. The multiple linear regression model explained 48% of the variance in the research productivity of the researchers, meeting both statistical and logical criteria. The model indicated that seven variables are determinants of research productivity, ranked in descending order of their effect as follows: administrative work hours (negative impact), reading and writing hours, type of university, academic programs offered by the department, the university where the degree was obtained, English language proficiency, and research field (specialization). The study also highlighted the existence of other important factors that were not significant determinants, such as gender, nationality, experience, and academic rank.

Quarterly Journal of Economics Impact Factor 2024-2025 - ResearchHelpDesk - The Quarterly Journal of Economics is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Oxford University Press for the Harvard University Department of Economics. Its current editors-in-chief are Robert J. Barro, Lawrence F. Katz, Nathan Nunn, Andrei Shleifer, and Stefanie Stantcheva (Harvard University). It is the oldest professional journal of economics in the English language and covers all aspects of the field—from the journal's traditional emphasis on micro theory to both empirical and theoretical macroeconomics. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2015 impact factor of 6.662, ranking it first out of 347 journals in the category "Economics". It is generally regarded as one of the top 5 journals in economics, together with the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Journal of Political Economy, and the Review of Economic Studies. The Quarterly Journal of Economics is the oldest professional journal of economics in the English language. Edited at Harvard University's Department of Economics, it covers all aspects of the field. QJE is invaluable to professional and academic economists and students around the world. Scope of the Journal The Quarterly Journal of Economics is the oldest professional journal of economics in the English language. Edited at Harvard University's Department of Economics, it covers all aspects of the field-from the journal's traditional emphasis on micro theory, to both empirical and theoretical macroeconomics. QJE is invaluable to professional and academic economists and students around the world. Impact Factor and Ranking Year Impact Factor Ssi: Economics 2020 15.563 1 out of 377 2019 11.375 1 out of 371 2018 11.775 1 out of 363 2017 7.863 1 out of 353 2016 6.662 1 out of 347 2015 5.538 2 out of 344 2014 6.654 1 out of 333 2013 5.966 3 out of 332 2012 5.278 2 out of 332 2011 5.920 2 out of 320 2010 5.940 2 out of 304 2009 5.647 2 out of 245 This information is taken from the Journal Citation Reports™ (Clarivate, 2021). Abstracting & Indexing Services The Quarterly Journal of Economics is covered by the following abstracting and indexing services: ABI-INFORM Book Review Digest Plus CAB Abstracts Coal Abstracts Criminal Justice Abstracts Current Contents: Social & Behavioral Sciences Current Index to Statistics Dietrich's Index Philosophicus Documentation in Public Administration EconLit Emerald Management Reviews Environmental RouteNet Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management Database Expanded Academic ASAP Family Index Historical Abstracts Human Resources Abstracts IBZ: International Bibliography of Periodical Literature Index of Economic Articles in Journals & Collected Volumes Index to Periodical Articles Related to Law International Bibliography of Humanities & Sociological Literature Leisure, Recreation, and Tourism Abstracts Leisure Tourism Database LexisNexis Operations Research - Management Science Peace Research Abstracts ProQuest Central Public Administration Abstracts Quality Control & Applied Statistics RePec Risk Abstracts SCOPUS Social Science Source Social Sciences Citation Index/Social SciSearch Social Sciences Index Social Work Abstracts Wilson Business Abstracts World Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology Abstracts Zentralblatt MATH

Data of investigation published in the article "Ranking by relevance and citation counts, a comparative study: Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic, WoS and Scopus".

Abstract of the article:

Search engine optimization (SEO) constitutes the set of methods designed to increase the visibility of, and the number of visits to, a web page by means of its ranking on the search engine results pages. Recently, SEO has also been applied to academic databases and search engines, in a trend that is in constant growth. This new approach, known as academic SEO (ASEO), has generated a field of study with considerable future growth potential due to the impact of open science. The study reported here forms part of this new field of analysis. The ranking of results is a key aspect in any information system since it determines the way in which these results are presented to the user. The aim of this study is to analyse and compare the relevance ranking algorithms employed by various academic platforms to identify the importance of citations received in their algorithms. Specifically, we analyse two search engines and two bibliographic databases: Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic, on the one hand, and Web of Science and Scopus, on the other. A reverse engineering methodology is employed based on the statistical analysis of Spearman’s correlation coefficients. The results indicate that the ranking algorithms used by Google Scholar and Microsoft are the two that are most heavily influenced by citations received. Indeed, citation counts are clearly the main SEO factor in these academic search engines. An unexpected finding is that, at certain points in time, WoS used citations received as a key ranking factor, despite the fact that WoS support documents claim this factor does not intervene.

Quarterly Journal of Economics Abstract & Indexing - ResearchHelpDesk - The Quarterly Journal of Economics is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Oxford University Press for the Harvard University Department of Economics. Its current editors-in-chief are Robert J. Barro, Lawrence F. Katz, Nathan Nunn, Andrei Shleifer, and Stefanie Stantcheva (Harvard University). It is the oldest professional journal of economics in the English language and covers all aspects of the field—from the journal's traditional emphasis on micro theory to both empirical and theoretical macroeconomics. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2015 impact factor of 6.662, ranking it first out of 347 journals in the category "Economics". It is generally regarded as one of the top 5 journals in economics, together with the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Journal of Political Economy, and the Review of Economic Studies. The Quarterly Journal of Economics is the oldest professional journal of economics in the English language. Edited at Harvard University's Department of Economics, it covers all aspects of the field. QJE is invaluable to professional and academic economists and students around the world. Scope of the Journal The Quarterly Journal of Economics is the oldest professional journal of economics in the English language. Edited at Harvard University's Department of Economics, it covers all aspects of the field-from the journal's traditional emphasis on micro theory, to both empirical and theoretical macroeconomics. QJE is invaluable to professional and academic economists and students around the world. Impact Factor and Ranking Year Impact Factor Ssi: Economics 2020 15.563 1 out of 377 2019 11.375 1 out of 371 2018 11.775 1 out of 363 2017 7.863 1 out of 353 2016 6.662 1 out of 347 2015 5.538 2 out of 344 2014 6.654 1 out of 333 2013 5.966 3 out of 332 2012 5.278 2 out of 332 2011 5.920 2 out of 320 2010 5.940 2 out of 304 2009 5.647 2 out of 245 This information is taken from the Journal Citation Reports™ (Clarivate, 2021). Abstracting & Indexing Services The Quarterly Journal of Economics is covered by the following abstracting and indexing services: ABI-INFORM Book Review Digest Plus CAB Abstracts Coal Abstracts Criminal Justice Abstracts Current Contents: Social & Behavioral Sciences Current Index to Statistics Dietrich's Index Philosophicus Documentation in Public Administration EconLit Emerald Management Reviews Environmental RouteNet Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management Database Expanded Academic ASAP Family Index Historical Abstracts Human Resources Abstracts IBZ: International Bibliography of Periodical Literature Index of Economic Articles in Journals & Collected Volumes Index to Periodical Articles Related to Law International Bibliography of Humanities & Sociological Literature Leisure, Recreation, and Tourism Abstracts Leisure Tourism Database LexisNexis Operations Research - Management Science Peace Research Abstracts ProQuest Central Public Administration Abstracts Quality Control & Applied Statistics RePec Risk Abstracts SCOPUS Social Science Source Social Sciences Citation Index/Social SciSearch Social Sciences Index Social Work Abstracts Wilson Business Abstracts World Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology Abstracts Zentralblatt MATH

Since computers revealed the possibility to collect and evaluate large data, there has been a significant increase in studies measuring the impact of academics. This study aims to analyse International Relations scholars and departments in Turkey by using the data from Google Scholar citation counts. Through this measurement, the study will generate a new ranking list as alternative to existing measurement lists. To control outcomes, Google-generated ranking lists will be compared with data generated from Social Science Citation Index (SSCI). Thus, the study aims to make a data-based contribution to the quality assessment literature, which has become increasingly popular in Turkey. Günümüzde bilgisayarlar geniş verileri toplama ve değerlendirme imkanını ortaya çıkarınca, akademisyenlerin etkisini ölçmeyi hedefleyen çalışmalarda ciddi bir artış oldu. Elinizdeki çalışma da Google Scholar (GS) atıf sayısı verileri üzerinden Türkiye’deki Uluslararası İlişkiler akademisyenlerini ve bölümlerini analiz etmeyi hedeflemektedir. Yapılacak bu analiz ile, mevcut ölçme listelerine alternatif olarak akademisyen ve bölümlerin yeni bir sıralanması ortaya konulmaktadır. GS verilerinden hareketle elde edilen sonuçlar, kontrol amacıyla Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) veri tabanından derlenen makale sayıları ve atıflar ile karşılaştırılmıştır. Böylelikle çalışma Türkiye özelinde gittikçe kapsamlı bir hale gelen nitelik değerlendirme literatürüne verilere dayalı bir katkı yapmayı hedeflemektedir.

Top ten journals in Scimago Journal & Contry Rank considering journals Title, rank position and general information (Issn, H index, Country, region, publisher…), as well as the editorial proportion within those journals, related to Editors-in-chief or editorial board. (XLSX)

Quarterly Journal of Economics Abbreviation ISO4 - ResearchHelpDesk - The Quarterly Journal of Economics is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Oxford University Press for the Harvard University Department of Economics. Its current editors-in-chief are Robert J. Barro, Lawrence F. Katz, Nathan Nunn, Andrei Shleifer, and Stefanie Stantcheva (Harvard University). It is the oldest professional journal of economics in the English language and covers all aspects of the field—from the journal's traditional emphasis on micro theory to both empirical and theoretical macroeconomics. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2015 impact factor of 6.662, ranking it first out of 347 journals in the category "Economics". It is generally regarded as one of the top 5 journals in economics, together with the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Journal of Political Economy, and the Review of Economic Studies. The Quarterly Journal of Economics is the oldest professional journal of economics in the English language. Edited at Harvard University's Department of Economics, it covers all aspects of the field. QJE is invaluable to professional and academic economists and students around the world. Scope of the Journal The Quarterly Journal of Economics is the oldest professional journal of economics in the English language. Edited at Harvard University's Department of Economics, it covers all aspects of the field-from the journal's traditional emphasis on micro theory, to both empirical and theoretical macroeconomics. QJE is invaluable to professional and academic economists and students around the world. Impact Factor and Ranking Year Impact Factor Ssi: Economics 2020 15.563 1 out of 377 2019 11.375 1 out of 371 2018 11.775 1 out of 363 2017 7.863 1 out of 353 2016 6.662 1 out of 347 2015 5.538 2 out of 344 2014 6.654 1 out of 333 2013 5.966 3 out of 332 2012 5.278 2 out of 332 2011 5.920 2 out of 320 2010 5.940 2 out of 304 2009 5.647 2 out of 245 This information is taken from the Journal Citation Reports™ (Clarivate, 2021). Abstracting & Indexing Services The Quarterly Journal of Economics is covered by the following abstracting and indexing services: ABI-INFORM Book Review Digest Plus CAB Abstracts Coal Abstracts Criminal Justice Abstracts Current Contents: Social & Behavioral Sciences Current Index to Statistics Dietrich's Index Philosophicus Documentation in Public Administration EconLit Emerald Management Reviews Environmental RouteNet Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management Database Expanded Academic ASAP Family Index Historical Abstracts Human Resources Abstracts IBZ: International Bibliography of Periodical Literature Index of Economic Articles in Journals & Collected Volumes Index to Periodical Articles Related to Law International Bibliography of Humanities & Sociological Literature Leisure, Recreation, and Tourism Abstracts Leisure Tourism Database LexisNexis Operations Research - Management Science Peace Research Abstracts ProQuest Central Public Administration Abstracts Quality Control & Applied Statistics RePec Risk Abstracts SCOPUS Social Science Source Social Sciences Citation Index/Social SciSearch Social Sciences Index Social Work Abstracts Wilson Business Abstracts World Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology Abstracts Zentralblatt MATH