Compare journals using the Journal Analyzer

Researchers often want an objective way to identify the most influential journals in their field when looking to publish their work. We have written previously about a few online tools for comparing journals. Now Scopus, a powerful bibliographic and citation database, has released Journal Analyzer.

Journal Analyzer is a easy-to-use graphic tool for comparing up to 10 journals at a time. You choose the journals and Scopus gives you interactive graphs and charts starting in 1996 with the following information:

• Total citations - the number of citations received by that journal each year
• Articles published - the number of articles published in that journal each year
• Trend line - the number of citations divided by the number of articles published each year

To access the Journal Analyzer, click on the Analytics tab at the top of the page in Scopus. Give it a try next time you're looking to compare journal performance.