Publish or Perish is a new citation rating program based on google scholar that seems to give more sensible results. I think we are all now aware of the Journal IMpact Ratings game. ISI pretty much has control of this market and excludes piles of journals from their analysis. To be included in ISI a journal cannot be over specialized, it cannot skip an issue or be late or slow, it must be older than 2 years, it must be cited in current ISI ranked journals, it should not cite more than 13% of its own articles during the rated interval, its editorial board ideally has an international component, all articles must be in eglish, and there are a number of other factors that can disqualify a journal. The corporate journals have a clear advantage here and they even encourage authors to cite papers from other journals from their corporation in order to inflate ratings (yes, its been published!). Publish or perish (http://www.harzing.com/resources.htm#/pop.htm) is an alternative to ISI, its free, and it uses the Google Scholar database to formulate rankings for journals, authors, and even articles. Granted that scholar isn't complete, but recent analyses reveal it is now more complete than ISI since ISI only includes cites from ISI journals, scholarly books, and ignores non-english publications among other factors. Scholar includes all of these sources, however, it misses some old articles, although this is changing with the expansion of BioOne, JStore, etc. So, from a citation analysis point of view, P&P is probably (in my opinion) more accurate than ISI because it now covers more citations. I did a few searches in the sciences. PP gies a ton of stats, here are 3. h-index = similar to the ISI rating, but not limited to last two years (slightly modified ISI rating) g-index = similar to h-index, slightly diffent formula AWCR = age-weighted citation rate, ave # of citations for a paper adjusted for the age of each paper. Of course, new journals (under 3 yr old) will rate low no matter what. First I list some generalized journals then a mess of herp journals by PP ranking and give their ISI rating in parentheses. If the journal is not rated it will say NR in the parentheses and if it is too new or defunct, it will have new or defunct in the paretheses. It is very interesting how some journals have decent ranking on PP and others are high on ISI. The rating by PP makes more sense to me. IF anyone thinks otherwise, let me know! Generalized journals: Science (30.93): h-index = 601, g-index = 917, AWCR = 70495 Nature(29.27): h-index = 593, g-index = 949, AWCR = 72135 BioScience (4.71): h-index = 114, g-index = 173, AWCR = 2904 Ecology (ISI = 4.51): h-index = 172, g-index = 255, AWCR = 7780 American Naturalist (ISI = 4.46): h-index = 53, g-index = 73, AWCR = 2186 American Midland Naturalist (ISI = 0.77): h-index = 49, g-index = 71, AWCR = 814 PloS Biology (ISI = 14.7): h-index = 24, g-index = 45, AWCR = 605 Southwestern Naturalist (ISI = 0.30): h-index = 23, g-index = 31, AWCR = 318 Southeastern Naturalist (ISI = 0.33):h-index = 7, g-index = 9, AWCR = 2.39 HERP JOURNALS (ranked by AWCR): Copeia (ISI = 0.974): h-index = 51, g-index = 77, AWCR = 1153 Journal of Herpetology (ISI = 0.817): h-index = 33, g-index = 43, AWCR = 841 Herpetologica (ISI = 0.922): h-index = 37, g-index = 51, AWCR = 668 Amphibia-Reptilia (ISI = 0.547): h-index = 20, g-index = 28, AWCR = 331 Herpetological Review (NR): h-index = 14, g-index = 17, AWCR = 216 Chelonian Conservation Biology (NR): h-index = 18, g-index = 25, AWCR = 187 Herpetological Journal(ISI = 0.71): h-index = 15, g-index = 19, AWCR = 152 Alytes (NR): h-index = h-index = 11, g-index = 16, AWCR = 78.09 Herpetological Natural History (defunct): h-index = 9, g-index = 12, AWCR = 32.68 Russian Journal of Herpetology (NR): h-index = 8, g-index = 10, AWCR = 32.34 Applied Herpetology (NR): h-index = 4, g-index = 5, AWCR = 19.45 Cuadernos de herpetologia (NR): h-index = 6, g-index = 7, AWCR = 14.27 Amphibian and Reptile Conservation (NR): h-index = 6, g-index = 8, AWCR = 12.86 British Journal of Herpetology (NR): h-index = 6, g-index = 11, AWCR = 7.34 Acta Herpetologica (new): h-index = 4, g-index = 5, AWCR = 5.78 Contemporary Herpetology (NR): h-index = 4, g-index = 6, AWCR = 5.19 Journal of Kansas Herpetology (NR): h-index = 1, g-index = 1, AWCR = 1.80 Manouria (NR): h-index = 2, g-index = 2, AWCR = 1.59 Brazilian Journal of Herpetology (NR): h-index = 1, g-index = 1, AWCR = 0.06. South American Journal of Herpetology (new) : h-index = 1, g-index = 1, AWCR = 0 Malcolm L. McCallum Assistant Professor Department of Biological Sciences Texas A&M University Texarkana 2600 Robison Rd. Texarkana, TX 75501 O: 1-903-223-3134 H: 1-903-791-3843 Homepage: https://www.eagle.tamut.edu/faculty/mmccallum/index.html VISIT HERPETOLOGICAL CONSERVATION AND BIOLOGY www.herpconbio.org <http://www.herpconbio.org> A New Journal Published in Partnership with Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation and the World Congress of Herpetology. 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