Journal Evaluation Tools

Journal Citation Reports
JCR, an Institute for Scientific Information database, is the most common tool used to determine journal impact factors.

Eigenfactor Search Tool
Use this tool to learn the Article Influence (AI), a measure of a journal's prestige based on per article citations and comparable to Impact Factor and the Eigenfactor (EF), a measure of the overall value provided by all of the articles published in a given journal in a year.

Journal Cost Effectiveness Search Tool
Use this search engine to find internationally-published journals and rank them by price per article or citation.

Publish or Perish Tool (Download executable application.)
Use this tool to obtain detailed statistics (based on Google Scholar), including the total number of papers and citations, average number of citations per paper, citations per author, papers per author, and citations per year as well as Hirsch's h-index, Egghe's g-index, the contemporary h-index, the age-weighted citation rate, two variations of individual h-indices and an analysis of the number of authors per paper.

SCImago Journal & Country Rank
Use this resource to evaluate journals contained in the Scopus database based on Google PageRank™. Journals can be ranked by SJR, H Index, journal title, journal documents, total cites and cites per document. Countries can be sorted by total of published documents, document citations, cites per document and H Index.