When publishing at Charles Sturt it is recommended that you first check that the journal is in:

• The SCImago Journal and Country Rank (SJR) is publicly available and includes journal Quartile ranks developed from the Scopus database.
• The Charles Sturt Publication Ranking Lists (CSU login required)

The CSU Research Productivity Index (CSU login required) allocate points depending on type of publication. 

You can use journal quality indicators to:

• identify journals you might want to publish in
• find journals relevant to your research
• check the status of journals you have published in.

It is important to compare a journal with other journals in the same field. SCImago Journal Country Rank (SJR ) lists journals in subject categories. For example, the Journal of Aging and Health is ranked 6th in Gerontology. It is also in the top quartile of the journals in this subject area.

Using journal rank in a field of research is more meaningful than quoting an impact factor without comparing it with other journals in its field.

CiteScore metrics are calculated using data from Scopus. It can help you evaluate journals, book series, conference proceedings and trade journals.

See: Current CiteScore Metrics

For more information on CiteScore and how to use it see:

• CiteScore Metrics
• How are CiteScore Metrics used in Scopus?

The SCImago Journal & Country Rank (SJR) uses data from Scopus to provide journal and country metrics.

Its journal-level metric expresses the average number of citations received in a selected year by the documents published in that journal in the previous three years.  

See the SJR Help for information on how to:

• Find a journal
• Rank a journal
• Understand tables and charts.

The Journal Analyzer in Scopus compares up to 10 journals indexed by Scopus.

See: 

• How do I Compare Sources for how to use the tool.
• Measuring a article's impact for explanations for the different metrics used in Scopus

You can find information about journal impact from a number of sources:

• Scimago Journal and Country Rank (SJR)
• Scopus
• ERA (Excellence in Research for Australia) journal list - 2018 -  it was developed for the sole purpose of supporting the ERA 2018 evaluation
• Web of Science includes category and quartile rank for publications
• Google Scholar Top Publications. For more information go to Google Scholar metrics.
• Australian Business Deans Council's journal quality list.
• Australian Political Studies Association (APSA) - updated in 2019 by APSA, the list ranks preferred journals for the 1606 and 1605 FOR codes.
• ERIHPLUS - European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
• Core Rankings Portal - Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia publications in computer science and information technology.

Journal impact factors for individual journals may also be available from publishers’ websites.

Note that Charles Sturt no longer has access to the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) database.