Title: What size is it? [estimated time: 30']

Scientific publishing can be evaluated qualitatively and quantitatively. Both methods are complementary to each other. Metrics can be useful to give an objective overview about journal's impact based on citation counter ....but not all metrics are equals.

Choose three different academic journals consistent with the topic described in the problem.

Choose journals from three different disciplinary areas:

one from the area of nanomaterials,

one from the area of molecular biology,

the latest one should be an interdisciplinary journal from the overlapped areas, i.e. biosensors or .applied microbiology.

Compare them using bibliometrics flashcards.

Q: Find the 2019 Impact factor (IF) of all journals and compare them.
A: What emerges?
What considerations can you make?
What kind of judgements can we base on the Impact Factor?

Are there any limitations or cautions to consider?
  Hint: Where you can find data?
  Hint: Explore appropriate and inappropriate uses of IF

Q: Find the 2019 Scimago Journal Rank (SJR) of all journals and compare them.
A: What emerges ?
What considerations can you make?

Wath differences with the previous comparisons?
  Hint: Where you can find data?
  Hint: Explores the comparison between the SJR indicator and the IF indicator

Q: Find Journal ranking and quartile scores of all journals in almost two differents databases and compare them.
A: Can you compare all journals?

Are you able to identify the best journal?

Wath emerges about intedisciplinary journals?
  Hint: Where you can find data?
  Hint: Explore the difference between absolute value of metrics and ranking scoress

Q: Find Source Normalized Impact for publication (SNIP) of all journals and compare them.
A: Can you compare all journals?

Are you able to identify the best journal?

Wath emerges about intedisciplinary journals?
  Hint: Where you can find data?
  Hint: Explore bibliometrics normalized indicators and their applications

Q: All bibliometric indicators are based on the count of citations extracted from a bibliographic database and a closed set of indexed journals (citation index).

What other bibliometric indicators are you familiar with?
A: Always remember to ask yourself:

What information do they give you?

How can they be used or not used?
What constraints or limitations should be considered?
How can this information help you evaluate a journal?

Do they provide comparable data?
  Hint: How are they calculated?
  Hint: Explore Responsibile metrics