Research Guides: Mathematics & Statistics: Journal Rankings

Sources for Journal Rankings

Journal Citation Reports (JCR) This link opens in a new window
2005-current. JCR allows evaluation and comparison of over 24,000 journals in science, technology, and the social sciences with respect to their importance in specific disciplines. The impact factor identifies the most highly cited journals in a discipline....more.

eigenFACTOR.org
A searchable database of Eigenfactor® and Article Influence® scores from 1997 to 2015. Provides two scores for each included journal: Eigenfactor Score (EF): "A measure of the overall value provided by all of the articles published in a given journal in a year"; and Article Influence Score (AI): A measure of a journal's prestige based on per article citations". This is similar to Impact Factor.
CWTS Journal Indicators
Developed by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University. Provides SNIP (source normalized impact per paper) data, which measures the average citation impact of the publications of a journal, for the over 20,000 journals indexed by Scopus.