Journal Tools & Measures
Below are instructions that can be used to help determine whether a journal is peer-reviewed or refereed, as well as links to tools that can be used to gather information on journal metrics.
How to tell if a journal is "peer-reviewed" or "refereed"
- Search journal by title using certain interfaces (Web of Knowledge (ISI), EBSCOHost, ) by limiting search "peer-reviewed" sources by clicking a box or selecting a tab.
- Search the title of the journal (in quotes) and the term peer-reviewed in Google. Critically analyze information found!
- Search at the journal's homepage page by looking at the editorial statement or instructions to authors
- Search for same in the physical copy of the journal where this information is either most often found it the first few pages of the journal or at the end
- CWTS Journal IndicatorsThe main site for SNIP rankings.
- SCImago Journal and Country RankThe main site for SJR rankings.
Searching & Tracking Citations
There are few ways in which you can search and track your citations via Heterick Library's resources. Below are details on how to search and track citations using our library databases, as well as links to databases that can be used to find and track citations.
Searching for Citations in a Database
Look for "Cited References" link at top of screen for all EBSCOHost products.
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Scholarly journal and magazine articles across a broad range of subjects. An excellent starting point for most research.
- JSTOR : the Scholarly Journal Archive This link opens in a new windowFull text articles, eBooks, and primary sources for many disciplines.
- APA PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
Journals, dissertations, and book chapters pertaining to the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences.
Tracking Citations
When using the Citation Reference Search tab at any of the Web of Science (ISI) databases, make sure you click on which database(s) you'd like to run the search.
- Science Citation Index Expanded (ISI) This link opens in a new windowKey index to articles from journals in science and technology.
- Google Scholar Author ProfileGoogle Scholar automatically sorts articles into groups. Authors can go through those, identify which articles are indeed theirs, and edit the list. Google Scholars collects citations for each author and graphs them over time to calculate different metrics: “the widely used h-index; the i-10 index, which is simply the number of articles with at least ten citations; and, of course, the total number of citations to your articles,” the blog post says.
- Publish or PerishRead the caveats.
Resources About Authors' Rights
- Authors' RightsSPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) resources explaining your rights as an author and how to use the SPARC author's addendum.
- Keep Your CopyrightsA website from Columbia University Law School informing authors about their rights regarding copyright.
- Retain Your CopyrightsInformation from the Claremont Colleges Library.
- SHERPA/RoMEO"RoMEO is a searchable database of publisher's policies regarding the self- archiving of journal articles on the web and in Open Access repositories."