When you want to submit your research paper to a journal. You must select a target journal for your field of study, and the journal must also be indexed in any of the major indexing databases such as ISI, Scopus, SCI, SCI-E, or ESCI. But identifying a target journal with a good citation report is not easy. In this article, the Vzglyad Ucheny publishing house provides answers to frequently asked questions about choosing a journal. This article also discusses the difference between SCI, SCIE, and SCImago journals.
How to check a journal indexed in ISI indexing database?
To check if a journal is indexed in the ISI Web of Science database or not, follow these steps:
1. Enter the URL in the address bar:
It will be redirected to the search page in the Clarivate Analytics Master Log.
2. Enter the name of the target journal in the search element field
3. Then in the next step select the search type
Regardless of whether you indicated the title, the full name of the journal or the ISSN number in the title of the word.
4. In the next step, select the database you want to check for indexing.
You can specify a specific database or select the main list of journals to find the overall coverage of the target journal.
5. Finally, you will get detailed information about the magazine with all database coverage.
Here you can see that this journal is indexed in the Science Citation Index.
How to determine if journals are indexed in the Scopus database?
Scopus is the number one database of peer-reviewed and cited journals, containing over 70 million articles such as scientific articles, conference proceedings, book chapters, lecture notes and books. To make sure the target journal is indexed in areas or not, you need to follow the steps below.
1. Enter the URL in the address bar:
You will be directed to view sources on Scopus.com, the journal list search page.
2. Select the title, publisher number, or ISSN number of the target journal to find if it is indexed in Scopus:
3. Specify the name of the target journal in the "Title" field. After specifying the name of the journal, click the "Find Sources" button.
4. Finally, you will get the details of the magazine with all database coverage
Here you can see that this journal "Nature Reviews Genetics" is indexed in the Scopus database. In addition, you will receive the Scopus Impact Factor and journal citation reports for the past five years.
How to identify Scimago rated magazines?
SCImago Journal & Country Rank is a public site to determine scientific journal and country rankings. SCImango rankings are used to analyze the quality of a journal for publication. This rating system is also powered by Scopus. To check if a journal is indexed in the Scimago database or not, follow these steps.
1. To check if your target journal is indexed in Scimago, go to scimagojr.
It will be directed to the Scimago Journal & Country Rank search page:
2. Enter the name of the target journal in the search item field. Then click the search button.
You can enter a word title, full journal title, or ISSN number in the search bar.
3. In the next step, select a journal title from the Scimago ranking result.
It will direct you to the ranking page.
4.Finally, you will get detailed log information with all the details of Scimago database ranking results.
Here you can see that this journal "Nature Reviews Genetics" took a place in the journal Scimago.
What is the difference between SCI journal, SCIE and SCImago?
Researchers often get confused when it comes to scientific indexing from different databases. Let's find the difference between SCI magazine, SCIE and SCImago.
Science Citation Index (SCI)
SCI: Science Citation Index (SCI) is a citation index originally prepared by the Institute for Science Information (ISI) and created by Eugene Garfield.
SCI was officially launched in 1964. It is now owned by Thomson Reuters. SCI SCImago Journal & Country Rank is a portal that includes journals and country science indicators developed from information contained in the Scopus (Elsevier) database.
These indicators can be used to evaluate and analyze scientific fields. The larger version (expanded science citation index) covers more than 6500 well-known and significant journals in 150 disciplines from 1900 to the present.
They are alternately named the world's leading science and technology journals due to a rigorous selection process.
Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
SCIE: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) is a bibliographic database originally created by Eugene Garfield, created by the Institute for Science Information (ISI) and currently owned by Thomson Reuters (TR). A company that releases a journal impact factor every year.
SCImago logs
SCImago Journal: This platform takes its name from the SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) indicator developed by SCImago from the well-known Google PageRank algorithm. This indicator shows the visibility of journals contained in the Scopus database since 1996. This index is based on the SCOPUS database, which indexed journals are much broader than ISI.
I hope this article helps you identify ISI, Scopus, or Scimago Indexed journals, and the difference between them.
Source: habr.com