Answered By: Research Librarian
Last Updated: Nov 16, 2022     Views: 36

Be aware that impact factors were originally designed to help libraries determine which publications to subscribe to and were not intended to be a comprehensive measure of journal quality. Additionally, not all journals have an impact factor, but journals that do will sometimes report their most recent impact factor on their website. Finally, impact factors tend to appear with STEM journals; journals in other fields are less likely to have an impact factor applied to them. This does not mean that those journals are less respected.

Some rankings are available through:

  • Eigenfactor (http://www.eigenfactor.org/projects/journalRank/journalsearch.php): This is useful for journals.
  • Google Scholar's Metrics (https://scholar.google.com/): The Metrics are found under the "hamburger" (three stacked lines). FYI, the journals are all STEM-related.