- Title
- Characterisation of academic journals in the digital age
- Creator
- Gu, Xin; Blackmore, Karen
- Relation
- Scientometrics Vol. 110, Issue 3, p. 1333-1350
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-016-2219-4
- Publisher
- Akademiai Kiado Rt.
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- Innovations in scholarly publishing have led to new possibilities for academic journals (e.g., open access), and provided scholars with a range of indicators that can be used to evaluate their characteristics and their impact. This study identifies and evaluates the journal characteristics reported in five databases: Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory (Ulrichs), Journal Citation Reports (JCR), SCImago Journal & Country Rank (SJR), Google Scholar Metrics (GS), and Cabell’s Periodical Directory (Cabells). It describes the 13 indicators (variables) that are available through these databases—scholarly impact, subject category, age, total articles, distribution medium, open access, peer review, acceptance rate, pricing, language, country, status, and issue frequency—and highlights the similarities and differences in the ways these indicators are defined and reported. The study also addresses the ways in which this kind of information can be used to better understand particular journals as well as the scholarly publishing system.
- Subject
- academic journal; attributes; impact factor; ranking; journal age; acceptance rate
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1349365
- Identifier
- uon:30390
- Identifier
- ISSN:0138-9130
- Rights
- This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Scientometrics. The final authenticated version is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-016-2219-4
- Language
- eng
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