CONNECT@Library
No. 15
February 15, 2002
Ranking the Journals
What are the top ten medical journals? Have you ever wanted to find out which
journals are the most influential in your field? These questions and many others
can be answered by consulting Journal Citation Reports.
This report, published by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), helps
researchers identify journals that have significant influence or outstanding
reputations in a given field. The journal "impact factor" is one of
the measures developed by ISI to evaluate journals. Evaluations are based on
the number of times articles in a given journal are cited by other authors.
Besides the alphabetic master list of 6,000 titles, there is a listing by subject
category showing the rankings of journals in a specific field. The latest edition,
covering the publishing year 2000, is now available in the Library's Closed
Reserve collection. Ask for it at the Circulation Desk: call number Z7401 S41.
