Scholarly Impact: Journal Impact Rankings

Washington & Lee’s ranking is based on citations in West’s databases for cases and journals. This site lists law journals by subject and different ranking criteria like impact factors. You can also generate your own lists. The does have links to journals but not all of these are active.

Provides a variety of analytics to evaluate and compare certain law and non law journals. Available from Falvey Library.

Database ranking journals in different disciplines and from different countries. It includes a law subject area classified under the social sciences heading.

Free site providing Scopus CiteScore information ranking journals in different disciplines and from different countries. It includes a law subject area. Alas, it has ads

Ranking list of top 100 journals based on citations to works in Hein's database.

Ranking list of top 20 law journals based on citations to journals in Google Scholar's database.

Ranking of journals based on Web of Science citations. It also offers statistics on citation and twitter mentions (though its journal dataset does not appear to be huge).

The University of Illinois Law Review's ranking of online law journals based on citations to article in Westlaw. This was last updated in 2017.

Mikhail Koulikov's classic study of journals ranked by citations in other disciplines. This dates from 2010.

Elsevier's journal ranking database with multiple metrics for tens of thousands of sources and publications. Available through Falvey Library.

Database drawing on Web of Science information to judge impact of science journals.

Assists with choosing publications based on subject specific analytics, impact factors and submission information. It also notes predatory journals. Analytics for law journals should be viewed with skepticism as they are currently classified with management journals. Available through Falvey Library.

Free database (which as a result includes web advertising) drawing on Scopus data to formulate its own journal and country rankings.

Citation database measures impact and activity across scholarly fields in addition to article citation.

Available through Falvey (link down)

Experimental system that ranks journals according to "scholarly networks."

Journal impact factor incorporating source normalized impact per paper (SNIP). This method attempts to correct for citation characteristics of different fields.

Ranking of journals in management and business professions compiled by Prof. Anne-Wil Harzing of Middlesex University (UK). This is currently updated to 2020.

List of European humanities and social science journals based on certain criteria ensuring quality and transparency.

Wiley's journal find feature with additional publication resources.

Database uses key words in paper title and abstract to find journals with articles containing those search terms.

You can use JSTOR's text analyzer to find like articles and the journals that have published them. (This idea comes to us from our friends at Roger Williams University library.)

Software developed by Professor Anne-Wil Harzing of Middlesex University (UK) to help scholars track their academic impact. This draws on information from Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic Search.

Resources to guide researchers on choosing the best "trusted" publications or publishers for their work. This site was produced by a group of scholarly communication organizations.

International database providing identification for international scholarly publications. The free product provides only basic publication information.

From the Scholarly Kitchen, this article offers brief description of the indicators used for impact ranking of journals and scholarship.

Site containing "evidence-based information" describing and evaluating different metrics used in various disciplines. It also has examples of using metrics in grant proposals, CVs and other academic documents.