Scholarly JournalIt is a peer-reviewed periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research. |
Science Citation IndexIt is the first commercially available citation index, launched in 1964 by the ISI. Now it is available with the WoS/ WoK platform. |
SCImago Journal RankIt is a prestige metric based on the idea that 'all citations are not created equal'. |
ScopusIt is the world's largest abstracting and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. |
Selected OAIt offers free availability of selected articles of a journal issue, while the rest of the issue requires a subscription to access. |
Self-CitationIt is a reference an author provide in a document to other documents written by himself/ herself. |
Serials CrisisA common phenomenon to describe the constant increase in subscription cost increases of many scholarly journals. |
Short-term OAIt provides free access to articles for a short period after publication, after which they are only available to paid subscribers. |
SNIPIt measures contextual citation impact by weighting citations based on the total number of citations in a subject field. |
Social Science Citation IndexIt is the second commercially available citation index, launched in 1972 by the ISI. Now it is available with the WoS/ WoK platform. |