Publisher, Databases, Journals

It appears you are looking for a comparison table that includes international publishers, databases,
and journals. It's important to understand that these are distinct entities within the scholarly
communication landscape:
1. Publishers are organizations or companies that oversee the production and distribution of
books, journals, and other publications.
2. Databases are digital platforms that store, organize, and provide access to scholarly
literature such as journal articles, conference papers, theses, etc.
3. Journals are publications, typically issued on a regular schedule, that contain scholarly
articles, studies, and other academic content.
Here is an illustrative table that includes examples of each:

Category Example Description

One of the world's major providers of scientific, technical, and

medical information. It publishes over 2,500 journals
Publisher Elsevier including The Lancet and Cell, and numerous books.

A global publisher that serves research, educational and

professional communities by publishing a wide range of
Springer Nature academic books, journals, and reference works.

A global publisher known for academic and educational

resources. It publishes on behalf of many scholarly and
Wiley professional societies.

The largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed

literature: scientific journals, books, and conference
proceedings. It provides a comprehensive overview of the
Database Scopus world's research output.

A research database used to access citation indexes, scholarly

journals, and conference proceedings. It helps users find high-
Web of Science quality research articles in various disciplines.

A free search engine that primarily accesses the MEDLINE

database of references and abstracts on life sciences and
PubMed biomedical topics.

An international journal publishing the finest peer-reviewed

Journal Nature research in all fields of science and technology.

New England
Journal of A prestigious medical journal that publishes new medical
Medicine research findings, review articles, and editorial opinion.
Category Example Description

Journal of the A peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American

American Chemical Society. It is considered one of the top journals in
Chemical Society the field of chemistry.

ISSN and DOI

1. ISSN: The International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) is an eight-digit number used
to uniquely identify a serial publication, such as a magazine, journal, or newspaper. The
ISSN is like an ID card for the entire journal and remains the same regardless of the issue or
volume of the journal. For instance, the ISSN for the journal "Nature" is 0028-0836. No
other journal will have this ISSN. Note that print and online versions of the same journal
will often have separate ISSNs.
2. DOI: A Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is a unique alphanumeric string assigned to a
digital object, such as a research paper, article, report, or dataset, to provide a persistent link
to its location on the internet. Unlike an ISSN, which identifies the journal itself, a DOI is
used to uniquely identify individual articles or digital objects within that journal (or within
other types of digital collections). For example, a specific article in the journal "Nature"
might have a DOI like "10.1038/nature21074". This DOI will always point to that specific
article, even if its URL changes over time.

H- Index
To calculate the H-index, you must first organize the papers of a researcher by citation count in descending
order.
For example, consider a researcher who has published seven papers, and those papers have been cited as
follows:
• Paper A: 32 citations
• Paper B: 25 citations
• Paper C: 18 citations
• Paper D: 12 citations
• Paper E: 10 citations
• Paper F: 6 citations
• Paper G: 2 citations
Now, arrange these papers in descending order of their citation counts:
1. Paper A: 32 citations
2. Paper B: 25 citations
3. Paper C: 18 citations
 4. Paper D: 12 citations
5. Paper E: 10 citations
6. Paper F: 6 citations
7. Paper G: 2 citations
Next, compare the order number with the number of citations:
1. Paper A: 32 citations
2. Paper B: 25 citations
3. Paper C: 18 citations
4. Paper D: 12 citations
5. Paper E: 10 citations
6. Paper F: 5 citations
7. Paper G: 2 citations
The H-index is the highest order number that is less than or equal to the number of citations for the
corresponding paper.
In this example, the H-index is 5 because the fifth paper has been cited at least 5 times, but the sixth
paper hasn't been cited 6 times. So, even if the researcher has seven papers, the H-index is 5 as per the
definition.

The Impact Factor (IF)

is a bibliometric index used to evaluate the relative importance of a scholarly journal within its
field. The calculation of the impact factor for a given year is based on the number of citations
received by the articles published in that journal during the two preceding years, divided by
the total number of 'citable' articles published in that journal during the same period.
the Impact Factor of any Journal for 2023 is calculated by dividing the number of
citations by the total number of 'citable' articles.
the total number of citations in 2023 to the articles that were published in the journal during
the years 2021 and 2022. Let's say this number is 100.
the total number of 'citable' articles that the journal published in 2021 and 2022. 'Citable'
articles typically include original research and review articles (not editorials or letters to the
editor). Let's say this journal published 50 such articles in 2021 and 2022 combined

So, IF = Total Citations / Total Citable Articles = 100 / 50 = 2

Therefore, the Impact Factor of this journal for the year 2023 is 2. This means that, on average,
each 'citable' article published in 2021 and 2022 received 2 citations in 2023.
 CiteScore

. CiteScore metrics calculate the citations from all documents in year one to all documents
published in the prior three years for a title. This offers a more robust and accurate indication of a
journal’s impact. As an example, to calculate a 2015 value, CiteScore counts the citations received
in 2015 to documents published in 2012, 2013 or 2014. This number is divided by the number of
documents indexed on Scopus published in 2012, 2013 and 2014

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank):

• The SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) indicator is a complex measure as it involves an iterative
algorithm, similar to Google's PageRank, that distributes prestige or authority over the
entire network of journals, with the principle that all citations are not created equal. The
prestige of a journal depends on the prestige of the journals citing it.
• To simplify, let's consider a network of 4 journals. Let's denote them as Journal A, Journal
B, Journal C, and Journal D. Let's suppose that in a given year:
• Journal A is cited by Journal B 15 times and by Journal C 10 times.
• Journal B is cited by Journal A 5 times, by Journal C 20 times, and by Journal D 10 times.
• Journal C is cited by Journal A 10 times and by Journal B 5 times.
• Journal D is cited by Journal B 5 times and by Journal C 15 times.
• Further, each journal has the following numbers of papers published in that year:
• Journal A: 50 papers
• Journal B: 70 papers
• Journal C: 60 papers
• Journal D: 80 papers
 • The calculation of the SJR index involves an iterative algorithm, with the basic assumption
that the SJR index for a journal in the first step is 1. Then the prestige of a journal is shared
equally among its citations.
• After the initial iteration, the prestige of a journal A can be calculated as follows:
• Prestige(A) = (1/Total Citations B * Prestige(B) * Citations from B to A) + (1/Total
Citations C * Prestige(C) * Citations from C to A)
• These calculations are done iteratively for all journals until the values for prestige stabilize
across the entire network of journals. Thus, the calculation of SJR is a complex task that
requires computational effort and cannot be calculated manually for a large set of journals.
• So, while the numerical example provided above is illustrative, it oversimplifies the actual
process involved in computing the SJR, which generally requires a computer program to
manage the multiple iterations and large numbers of journals and citations typically
involved in an actual bibliometric analysis. It's also important to remember that SJR
considers both the incoming and outgoing citations for all the journals, which makes the
calculation more complex.
The calculation of SJR would then weigh these citations by the SJR scores of the citing journals,
giving more weight to citations from prestigious journals. This calculation is actually complex,
involving iterative computation, but the underlying idea is to weigh citations based on the prestige
of the citing journals.
SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper):

Suppose we have a journal in a field where the average citation count per paper is 4. If
the average citation count for papers in our journal is 5, then the SNIP is calculated as
follows:
SNIP = Average Citations for Our Journal / Average Citations in Field = 5 / 4 = 1.25
This means that the papers published in our journal are cited 25% more than the average paper in
this field.
‫ وكيف يمكن حسابها‬Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 ‫ماذا تعني‬
suppose you have 100 journals in a certain field, and they are ranked according to their impact
factor. To calculate the quartiles, you would:

Sort the journals in descending order based on their impact factor.

Divide the sorted list into four equal parts. Because we have 100 journals in this example, each part
will contain 25 journals.
The top 25 journals (1st to 25th in the ranking) would be classified as Q1.
The next 25 journals (26th to 50th in the ranking) would be classified as Q2.
The next 25 journals (51st to 75th in the ranking) would be classified as Q3.
 The last 25 journals (76th to 100th in the ranking) would be classified as Q4.
So, if a journal is ranked 18th out of 100, it would be in the Q1 quartile. If a journal is ranked
40th, it would be in Q2. If it's ranked 70th, it would be in Q3, and if it's ranked 95th, it would be
in Q4.

Keep in mind that these rankings are recalculated periodically (often annually), and a journal's
quartile might change from one period to the next if its impact factor or the impact factors of the
other journals in its field change.

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Prepared by: Dr. Abdelhak Lefilef

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