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Google Scholar Metrics
Impact - Journals
Impact - Articles
Metrics - Criminology, Law & Society - Research Guides at University of California Irvine
Google Scholar Metrics
Google Scholar Metrics
"Google Scholar Metrics enable authors to gauge the visibility and
influence of recent articles in scholarly publications. Scholar Metrics
summarize recent citations to many publications, to help authors as they
consider where to publish their new research.
To get started, browse the top 100 publications in several languages,
ordered by their five-year h-index and h-median metrics. To see which
articles in a publication were cited the most and who cited them, click
on its h-index number to view the articles as well as the citations
underlying the metrics.
To browse publications in a broad area of research, select one of the areas in the left column. For example: SOCIAL SCIENCE.
To explore specific research areas, select one of the broad areas like SOCIAL SCIENCE, click on the "Subcategories" link and then select one of the options. For example, "Top publications - Criminology, Criminal Law & Policing" ...
influence of recent articles in scholarly publications. Scholar Metrics
summarize recent citations to many publications, to help authors as they
consider where to publish their new research.
To get started, browse the top 100 publications in several languages,
ordered by their five-year h-index and h-median metrics. To see which
articles in a publication were cited the most and who cited them, click
on its h-index number to view the articles as well as the citations
underlying the metrics.
To browse publications in a broad area of research, select one of the areas in the left column. For example: SOCIAL SCIENCE.
To explore specific research areas, select one of the broad areas like SOCIAL SCIENCE, click on the "Subcategories" link and then select one of the options. For example, "Top publications - Criminology, Criminal Law & Policing" ...
- Google Scholar: Top publications - Criminology, Criminal Law & PolicingGoogle
Scholar Metrics uses the H-Index formula to rank journals. The Metrics
Home Page lists the top 100 h5-index ranked publications in English.
More importantly, it lists the top ranked publications by subject area.
"The h5-index is the h-index for articles published in the last 5
complete years. It is the largest number h such that h articles
published in 2007-2011 have at least h citations." - About Google Scholar Metrics"Google
Scholar Metrics provide an easy way for authors to quickly gauge the
visibility and influence of recent articles in scholarly publications.
Scholar Metrics summarize recent citations to many publications, to help
authors as they consider where to publish their new research..."
Impact - Journals
ISI's Journal Citation Reports and Washington & Lee'sLaw Journals: Submissions and Ranking can show you the most frequently cited and highest impact journals in law, criminology and penology.
- Journal Citation Reports® (ISI ~ Web of Science)*Evaluate
and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 7,500
scholarly and technical journals from more than 3,300 publishers in over
60 countries ... - Law Journals: Submissions and Ranking (Washington & Lee University School of Law)Counted
citations are those which cite journal volumes published in the
preceding eight years. The reason for this limit is to prevent a bias in
favor of long-published journals... - Ulrich's Periodicals Directory*"Ulrichsweb.com
is the authoritative source of bibliographic and publisher information
on more than 300,000 periodicals of all types — academic and scholarly
journals, Open Access publications, peer-reviewed titles, popular
magazines, newspapers, ..."
Impact - Articles
Sources for finding citation counts and subsequent cited papers
- eScholarshipThe repository is a service of the eScholarship initiative of the California Digital Library.
- Google ScholarSearch results include "Cited By" and "Web Search" references.
Included
are "Related Articles" based on the Google search algorithm and "Web
Search" for locating documents that include the search term or citation. - Shepard's Citations *The
earliest citation indices were legal citators such as Shepard's
Citations (nee, 1873). Westlaw's citator tool is known as Key Cite. - Social Science Research Network (SSRN)SSRN
consists of two parts: an Abstract Database containing abstracts on
over 289,500 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an
Electronic Paper Collection currently containing over 240,200
downloadable full text documents. SSRN also includes the research papers
of a number of so-called Fee Based Partner Publications. - Web of Science *Use
"Cited Author Search" to locate by principal author, journal title, and
publication year. The alternative is to use "General Search" by author
name, topic, or year.
Metrics - Criminology, Law & Society - Research Guides at University of California Irvine