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Psychology: Evaluating Journals
UW Libraries resources for research in and study of psychology.
Evaluating Journals
- Identifying Reputable Journals - Research Guideo Tips for identifying reputable journals and avoiding disreputable or predatory journals.
- Impact Factors Research Guideo Explanations of author impact factors and journal impact factors, as well as altmetrics.
- Ulrichsweb This link opens in a new window
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o Journal database that indicates whether a journal is peer-reviewed and what databases index its contents.
Journal Metrics
- Journal Citation Reports This link opens in a new window
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Tool for ranking journals according to their citation influence.
- Eigenfactor Journal RankingAlgorithm developed by researchers at UW that "rank[s] journals much as Google ranks websites."
- Google Scholar MetricsAnother tool for ranking journals by citation influence, using the h-5 & h-5 median indicators. Use the "Categories" link to choose Psychology and related fields from "Health & Medical Sciences," "Social Sciences" and more.
- CiteScoreFree metrics from Elsevier, for serial titles in the Scopus database
- CWTS Journal IndicatorsIndicators, including Impact per Publication (IPP) & Source Normalized Impact per Publication (SNIP), drawing on data from the Scopus database
- ScimagoJRA publicly available portal that includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from information contained in Scopus