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title: "Choosing Journals with Metrics"
artifact: "highlights"
resource_person: "Neha Agrawal"
resource_person_role: "Founder, WiseUp Communications; research and scientific-writing educator"
vertical: "research"
module: "Publishing: Journals, Conferences and Beyond"
lesson: "Choosing Journals with Metrics"
lesson_key: "choosing-journals-with-metrics"
source: "curated"
source_channel: "WiseUp Communications"
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# Choosing Journals with Metrics: Highlights

**Resource person:** Neha Agrawal - Founder, WiseUp Communications; research and scientific-writing educator

**Curated from:** WiseUp Communications

1. A journal metric only makes sense with its database, calculation year, citation window and subject category.
2. Journal Impact Factor uses a short two-year publication window and is highly sensitive to disciplinary citation speed.
3. CiteScore uses Scopus data, a four-year window and the same five document types in its numerator and denominator.
4. SJR weights citations by the citation-network standing of the source that supplies them.
5. SNIP adjusts for field differences in citation activity and is interpreted against a field benchmark.
6. Journal choice also requires scope, audience, editorial practice, fees, archiving, ethics and current institutional rules.
7. Verify every indexing and metric claim in an official source before relying on it.