EndNote is a paid citation manager, but it is available for free to GSU students, faculty, and staff from the GSU software downloads page. For help, check out the GSU EndNote Libguide.
Zotero is a free citation management tool supported by GSU Library faculty. For help, check out the GSU Zotero Libguide.
Mendeley is a free citation management tool that also incorporates social networking features for researchers. For help, check out the GSU Mendeley LibGuide.
Journal Rankings & Impact Factors
Impact factor is a measure of the relative importance of a journal. Impact factors give a quantitative measure of a journal’s influence and impact compared to other journals.
For a 2008 journal, the Impact Factor (IF) = A/B
A = the number of times articles published in 2006-7 were cited in indexed journals during 2008
B = the number of articles, reviews, proceedings or notes published in 2006-7
So, a 2008 journal with an Impact Factor (IF) of 3.333 means that on average, each of its 2006 and 2007 articles was cited 3.333 times in 2008.
1. Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
5. In-Cites
6. Others
Journal Usage Factors (Journal Usage Data)
Y Factor (IF & Weighted PageRank from Google)
MESUR (Metrics from Scholarly Usage of Resources)
Journal-Ranking.com by RedJasper
References
1. PLoS Medicine Editors (June 6, 2006). "The Impact Factor Game". PLoS Medicine. doi: .
2. Joint Committee on Quantitative Assessment of Research (June 12, 2008). "Citation Statistics" (PDF). International Mathematical Union. http://www.mathunion.org/fileadmin/IMU/Report/CitationStatistics.pdf.
3. Seglen PO (1997). "Why the impact factor of journals should not be used for evaluating research". BMJ 314 (7079): 498–502. PMID 9056804. PMC: 2126010
4. C. T. Bergstrom. (May 2007). "Eigenfactor: Measuring the value and prestige of scholarly journals". College & Research Libraries News 68 (5). http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/crlnews/2007/may/eigenfactor.cfm.
5. Johan Bollen, Marko A. Rodriguez, and Herbert Van de Sompel. (December 2006). "Journal Status". Scientometrics 69 (3). http://www.arxiv.org/abs/cs.GL/0601030.
Author Impact Factor: h-Index
The h-index assesses scientific productivity of a scientist, group, or institution via quantity (# papers) and quality (# citations). In other words, the index is based on a balance between the scientist's most-cited papers and the number of citations per publication.
An h-Index of 25 means that the author has 25 publications that have received at least 25 citations.
An h-index can be obtained from:
1. Web of Science database, using the
2. Scopus