Journal ranking / Impact factor

Selected ranking lists and suggestions for how to find ranking lists within your subject area.

Ranking lists

Approved publishing channels in Norway by the Norwegian Association of Higher Education Institutions (UHR):
Search the register of approved publishing channels - Level 1 and 2 journals and publishers
Financial Times' Journals list - The list is not ranked, but used by Financial Times when ranking institutions offering MBA studies.
Journal Citation Reports - evaluation of journals and impact factor. Published by Thomson Reuters.
Film on how to find impact factor in JCR
Journal Quality List – compiled and edited by Dr. Anne-Wil Harzing, University of Melbourne.
ABS - the Association of Business Schools: Academic Journal Quality Guide - The list is compiled for British business schools, but is also used in the Norwegian academic environment.
Eigenfactor.org – Evaluation of academic journals, published by a non-commercial organization endorsed by the Universy of Washington.

Publish or perish - Based on data from Google Scholar.
Web of Science (ISI) - The data is extracted from the literature lists in peer reviewed journals. Use the feature Cited Reference Search.
Film on how to perform a citation search in Web of Science
Business Source Complete - Search the literature lists in journals included in the database. Does not offer the same tool for doing an analysis as Web of Science does. Use Cited References in the drop down menu under More.

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Updated: 03.03.13, OAS