Ranking of Indian Journals with Popular International Journals: a Comparative Study

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC & TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH VOLUME 9, ISSUE 03, MARCH 2020 ISSN 2277-8616 Ranking Of Indian Journals With Popular International Journals: A Comparative Study

Dr. Rashmi Chawla, Dr. Manju Gupta, Neerja Anand

Abstract: Academic Writing is an important benchmark for measuring academic proficiency. This review paper is an attempt to provide the necessary guidance to researchers and academicians who fall prey to fake and predatory journals for the publication of their research work. A comparative analysis of various important journal metrics has been done for a defined and clear cut understanding of the involved bibliometrics. An attempt has also been made to compare and analyze the status of Indian Journals in comparison to International ones on the basis of prestige metric SciMago Journal Ranking (SJR) as far as their rankings are concerned. The outcome of this paper focuses on the problems and challenges associated with Indian Journals, their present status and the gap that needs to be abridged.

Key Words: Academic Writing, Bibliometrics, Business Management and Accounting, Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Impact Factor, Journal Rankings, SJR ————————————————————

1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 LITERATURE REVIEW Academic Writing is essential in need based research which This review paper aims to provide a brief overview of the is the focal point of current era and plays an important role various journal metrics used for publication of research in dissemination of knowledge and exchange of ideas. The work and an effort has been made to make a comparative unexplored and unattended global issues which are not analysis of the 9 popular journal metrics with their pros and addressed can be presented in a convincing manner with cons. evidences through academic writing. It serves as a benchmark for measuring academic proficiency. Academic 1.2 JOURNAL METRICS Writing is a requirement in today‘s world for dissemination The various types of journal metrics have been depicted in of knowledge with national and international researchers Table 1. Any journal metric can be selected for publication leading one to analyze and think in a critical way. It also by a researcher on the basis of suitability and subject helps in complying with the mandatory requirements for discipline. The impact factor (IF), first introduced by Eugene publication for PhD, getting promotions, recognition and Garfield, the founder of the Institute for Scientific grants for projects. For the publication of your work Information (Garfield E,2006)is frequently used as an targeting a journal wisely is very important in academic indicator of the importance of a journal to its field. IF have research. Factors like the quality of the journal with good been criticized by many analysts even though they have impact factor, Journal indexing, scope of the journal been widely accepted as the best instrument for evaluation keeping in mind the research area, article processing for quality of journals (Cantin, Munoz &Roa,2012).Later charges, time and speed of a journal should be taken into various other methods were introduced like Citescore consideration. Bibliometrics/Journal Metrics play a vital role Metrics, SJR, Eigenfactor, Article Influence,Altmetrics,H5 in influencing a researcher‘s decision of publishing a Index and many more. research paper. The Bibliometrics or analysis of journals is done to find out the impact of academic research for which 1.3 JOURNAL RANKINGS three measures can be used. ―Journal Metrics provide extra A comparative ranking and international status of Indian insight into three aspects of our journals-impact, speed and journals with International ones by employing a prestige reach-and help authors select a journal when submitting an journal metric SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)on the basis of article for publication.‖-Elsevier Journal Ranking is one of publications in Subject areas of Business Management and the most important factors in judging and deciding about Accounting, Econometrics, Economics and Finance, publishing a research work in any journal. There are various Multidisciplinary and Social Sciences which are listed in metrics available for the ranking of the journals which differs SJR and Scopus database has been done.SCImago is a r with the subject areas so it is important to make a esearch group from the Consejo Superior de comparison of journals within the same or similar disciplines Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), University of Granada, as much as possible. It is easier to compare and find out Extremadura, Carlos III (Madrid) and Alcalá de Henares, the impact of journal within the same disciplines and it dedicated to information analysis, representation and becomes complex when it comes to multidisciplinary retrieval by means of visualization techniques. (Elsevier subjects. B.V.). The SCImago Journal & Country Rank is a publicly available portal that includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus® database (Butler D., 2008).This platform takes its name from the SCImago Journal Rank ______(SJR) indicator , developed by SCImago from the widely known algorithm Google PageRank™. This indicator shows  Dr. Rashmi Chawla, Assistant Professor, School of Management, the visibility of the journals contained in IMS Noida. the Scopus® database from 1996.SJR offers various filters  Dr. Manju Gupta, Professor, School of Management, IMS Noida for a comparative analysis of the journals based on country  Neerja Anand, Assistant Professor, School of Management, IMS Noida. of origin, domains or areas of publication. Journals can be 72 IJSTR©2020 www.ijstr.org INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC & TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH VOLUME 9, ISSUE 03, MARCH 2020 ISSN 2277-8616 grouped by subject area (27 major thematic areas), subject different journal quality indicators exist but no indicator is category (313 specific subject categories) or by country. superior to others. Even though the indicators were highly Citation data is drawn from over 34,100 titles from more correlated but there were differences in terms of journal than 5,000 international publishers and country rankings. Jacsó, P., 2010 in his study compared the journal performance metrics from 239 countries worldwide. Falagas impact rankings of the open access SCImago Journal & et al, 2008 in their study ―Comparison of scimago journal Country Rank (SJR) database and the subscription‐ rank indicator with journal impact factor‖ found the based Journal Citation Reports (JCR) on 17000 journals differences between the SCImago journal rank (SJR) and their effects on journal rankings. The study established indicator and the journal impact factor (IF). SJR indicator is that SJR provides more comprehensive and scientific an open source, gives weight to citations on the basis of ranking giving weightage to citations on the basis of prestige of the citing journal and has a larger database prestige of journal unlike the ISI(Institute of Scientific (Scopus) in comparison to Journal IF which is a paid Information) ranking and Thomson Reuter Company. subscription, lists less journal titles and is based on Web of Valadez R. et al. 2018 studied about the different Science. SJR is a serious alternative to the well- bibliometrics-Impact factor, Eigenfactor, citescore, SJR, established journal IF. Nanjundaiah, Dinesh K., 2017 in SNIP, H index and altmetrics and their relevance in their research compared the Indian Journals with selecting the most appropriate journal for publication on the International Journals in the area of Humanities and Social basis of algorithm shared by them. The study helps the Sciences and concluded that there is a wide gap between researchers to find out the best journal on the basis of the rankings of Indian Journals and International Journals. journal metrics and to do self-evaluation of their own Patwardhan B. et al., 2018 discussed about the reason for scientific research. Indexing provides a database of higher low quality publication in India by analyzing 1009 journals quality, ethically sound and scientific journals in terms of (excluding 327 indexed in Scopus) out of 5699 UGC publication. Journals which are indexed are considered to approved journals. Publication in predatory/dubious and be of higher quality in comparison to any non-indexed substandard journals is alarming in India. Two factors journals. Indexing of a journal provides better visibility of the aggravated the expansion of these journals first being the journal with a wider user base. Being visible and accessible introduction of API(Academic Performance Indicator) by to larger people will cause better quality papers and results. UGC in 2010 and second the compliance of mandatory There are prestigious and recognized Indexing Agencies requirement of publication for PhD thesis by UGC in 2013. like Science Citation Index (SCI®) and ESCI, Social Mingers J., Yang L., 2017 evaluated the journal quality Sciences Citation Index (SSCI®), PubMed: NCBI, Web of indicators in terms of accuracy, transparency, robustness Science, SCOPUS, EMBASE, Chemical Abstracts, ISI, and unbiasedness and used these indicators to empirically Index Copernicus, Sci factor, ICI and Google Scholar. study the comparison of business and management journals on the basis of ABS ranking. It was found that

Table 1: Summary of 9 popular Journal Metrics

Name of S Yr Journal Definition Methodology for computing Pros Cons N s. Metrics 1. Slow process; It is a measure of Doesn‘t always depicts ―In any given year, the impact reputation of a journal. true picture. ―Impact factor is a measure of factor of a journal is the Considered as most 2. Just a single highly the frequency with which the number of citations, received effective basis of cited article can improve "average article" in a journal in that year, of articles selection of a journal. the IF of a journal. has been cited in a particular published in that journal Plays an important role 3. Difference in IF(Impact year.‖ (Malathi M et al,2012) 1 during the two preceding 2 in assessing the frequency and subject of Factor) A journal‘s Impact factor is years, divided by the total academic performance the journal do not allow presented by a digit followed number of articles published of a researcher. meaningful comparison by year and name of IF in that journal during the two Higher the impact Factor of the journals of providing preceding years.‖ (Garfield, higher will be the API different subject. agency in brackets. Eugene, 1994) score(Semalty, A. et al, 4.Inclusion of self- 2019) citation(Semalty, A. et al, 2019) ―A base of five years may be more appropriate for journals in certain fields because the 5 Yr IF (Year X) = (Total No body of citations may not be It is suitable for slow of articles cited for X-1, X-2, 5 Year large enough to make moving areas of X-3, X-4 and X-5 Yr) / (Total 2 IF(Impact reasonable comparisons, or it 5 research where the number of published articles Factor) may take longer than two citation is slow and need in X-1, X-2, X-3, X-4 and X-5 years to publish and distribute more time. years)- Elsevier leading to a longer period before others cite the work.‖ – Elsevier Metrics by CiteScoreTM metrics are new ―CiteScore calculates the ―CiteScore counts all Not suitable for journals Scopus: benchmarks average number of citations articles published in a which publish a lot of 3 3 CiteScoreT of measuring journal citation received in a calendar year journal, where the IF non-research material M metrics impact. ―CiteScore metrics are by all itemspublished in that only counts research which are widely read, 73 IJSTR©2020 www.ijstr.org INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC & TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH VOLUME 9, ISSUE 03, MARCH 2020 ISSN 2277-8616

comprehensive, transparent, journal in the preceding three articlesand reviews, and but not well cited, current years. excludes news articles, resulting in a lower and free metrics calculated (https://journalmetrics.scopus editorials, book reviews CiteScore ranking for using data from Scopus®. ‖It is .com/index.php/Faqs) and the like, from the these journals. (Semalty, a group of eight indicators metric‘s denominator.‖ A. et al, 2019) •CiteScore;citescore (doi:10.1093/eurheartj/e percentile; citescore tracker; hx446) CiteScore Quartiles, CiteScore Rank; Citation Count, Document Count; Citation Count Percentage Cited(Hicks, D., Wouters, P., Waltman, L., De Rijcke, S., &Rafols, I. (2015)). The Eigenfactor® score is a rating of the total importance of a specific journal which are rated according to the number of incoming citations, with 1. Assigns journals to a citations from highly ranked single category, Citations from highly journals weighted to make a making it more difficult It is a count of the number of ranked journals are larger contribution to the to compare across Eigenfactor citations in the target year to more important and 4 Eigenfactor® than those from 5 disciplines. ® articles from the previous 5 influential than those poorly ranked journals.Jevin 2. It gives weightage to years from lower ranked West and Carl Bergstrom at highly ranked journals. the University of Washington journals(Semalty, A. et proposed Eigenfactor, which is al, 2019) a rating of the total importance of a scientific journal.(Bergstrom CT et al ,2008) The Article Influence 1.It assigns journals to a determines the average single category, making influence of a journal's articles Article Influence it more difficult to over the firstfive years after =0.01×Eigenfactor® score/X If AI > 1.00 → All articles Article compare across 5 publication.AI is roughly Where X = 5-year Journal 5 of the journal have Influence disciplines.2.It gives analogous to the 5-Year Article Count/5-year Article above-average influence weightage to highly Journal Impact Factor. Count from All Journal ranked journal(Semalty, (Cantin, M., Munoz M., Roa,I. A. et al, 2019) 2015) It assesses how immediately a It is derived by taking It aims to show the citation is received for an citations in year X to articles Immediacy importance of article It varies from subject to 6 article of journal. published in year X divided 1 Index leading to early/urgent subject (Cantin, M., Munoz M., Roa,I. by thetotal number of articles citation. 2015) published in year X. SNIP= IPP/DCP (IPP)Impact per paper: The impact of such a average number of citations journal is high for those received in a particular Source- persons who are It measures the impact within year(X) by papers published Subject categorization is Normalized interested in that a particular subject category in the journal during the three needed and it becomes 7 Impact per 3 particular subject and is (Cantin, M., Munoz M., Roa,I. preceding years (X-1, X-2,X- difficult in Paper highly suitable for arts 2015) 3) multidisciplinary subjects (SNIP) humanities and social DCP is Database Citation sciences. (Semalty, A. et Potential: citation potential in al, 2019) the subject field it covers. (Semalty, A. et al, 2019) SCImago Journal Rank (SJR indicator) is a measure of scientific influence of scholarly journals that accounts for both the number It expresses the average of citations received by a number of weighted citations (SJR) takes into account journal and the importance or received in the selected year both the number of prestige of the journals where It gives importance to SCImago by the documents published citations received by a such citations come from. A the citations received 8 Journal in the journal in the three 3 journal and the prestige journal's SJR is a numeric from high ranked Rank (SJR) previous years. It assigns of the journal based on value indicating the average journals. each citation a value greater where those citations number of weighted citations or less than 1.00 based on come from. received during a selected the rank of the citing journal year per document published in that journal during the previous three years. Higher SJR values are meant to indicate greater journal 74 IJSTR©2020 www.ijstr.org INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC & TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH VOLUME 9, ISSUE 03, MARCH 2020 ISSN 2277-8616

prestige.The SJR indicator provides an alternative to the impact factor (IF) or average citations per document in a 2-year period, abbreviated as "Cites per Doc. (2y)".Matthew E. Falagas; et al. (2008). It is social media based metrics essentially attention The score is derived from an It is valuable to those metrics. It attempts to automated algorithm, and working in controversial It focuses on the measure the amount of represents a weighted count fields; institutions, attention not the quality 9 Altmetrics attention and public of the amount of attention librarians, journal editors .Controvertial papers get conversation stimulated by a we've picked up for a etc. (Semalty, A. et al, more altmetrics given article. research output 2019) (Semalty, A. et al, 2019)

2. OBJECTIVES peer-reviewed journals. Out of the 27 subject domains on This review paper/article aims to study the following four SJR portal, four subject disciplines have been taken for objectives: study namely, Business, management and Accounting; 1. The type of journal metrics used for choosing a Econometrics, Economics and Finance; Multidisciplinary journal wisely and a comparative analysis of all the and Social Sciences since the researchers area of interest journal metrics. lies in these fields. The above indicators have been used 2. The comparative study of ranking and international for analyzing and evaluating the ranking of Indian Journals status of Indian journals in comparison to and international status of India on the basis of total international ones using SJR (SCImago Journal publications. A total of 72 journals falling in the above four Rank). subject areas were chosen for the study which are 3. To study the country-wise ranking of India on the published from India and are indexed in the Scopus basis of publications in Subject areas of Business database. The data were considered up-to 2018 for these Management and Accounting, Econometrics, 72 journals from SJR and Scopus database. Economics and Finance, Multidisciplinary and Social Sciences which are listed in SJR and 4. DATA ANALYSIS Scopus database. The data collected has been presented in tabular form for 4. The challenges faced by Indian Journals and the convenience and understanding of the readers. Table 2 suitable recommendations for the same. depicts the Total Number and percentage of Journals listed in SJR subject wise published in India in 2018. Table 3 3. METHODOLOGY shows the Total Number and percentage of Journals in The review paper is a descriptive analytical study of India listed in SJR in four disciplines selected for the study rankings of Indian Journals with their international namely Business Management and Accounting, counterparts. Secondary data has been used from the Econometrics, Economics and Finance, Multidisciplinary portal of SCImago Journal & Country Rank portal on 22 and Social Sciences in 2018.Total Number of Journals December 2019. The data for the study which has been listed in SJR in India as per the subcategories of four downloaded from the SJR portal includes: a) the subject disciplines selected for study in 2018 have been presented wise and sub-category wise journals; b) Country specific in Table 4.Ranking of Indian Journals as per SJR Indicator journals; c) the Scimago journal rank indicator of all the and Impact Factor and their comparison with International selected journals; d) 2 years cites per doc (impact factor) of Journals in the chosen four disciplines selected for study in all the selected journals; and e) country rankings on the 2018 has been depicted in Table 5 and Table 6 indicates basis of documents published, citations and H Index, India‘s Ranking as per Scimago Country Ranking in terms developed from the information contained in the Scopus of Number of documents published in India, Total citations database. The Scopus is a multidisciplinary and largest and H index in 2018. international database which indexes more than 18000

Table 2- Total Number and percentage of Journals listed in SJR subject wise published in India in 2018 from 27 disciplines.

Subject wise distribution of Journals as per SJR S/N Subject No. of Journals Percentage 1 Medicine 185 25.48 2 Pharmacology,Toxicology,Pharmaceuticals 74 10.19 3 Agricultural and Biological Sciences 60 8.26 4 Bio Chemistry,Genetics and molecular Biology 50 6.89 5 Engineering 41 5.65 6 Social Sciences 41 5.65

7 Environmental Science 39 5.37 8 Mathematics 22 3.03 9 Earth and Planetary SciencDees 21 2.89 10 Computer Science 18 2.48 11 Materials Science 17 2.34 12 Business management and Accounting 16 2.20 13 Chemistry 16 2.20 14 Arts and humanities 14 1.93 15 Chemical engineering 14 1.93 16 Dentistry 14 1.93 17 Physics and Astronomy 14 1.93 18 Immunology and microbiology 13 1.79 19 Veterinary 9 1.24 20 Economics, Econometrics and Finance 8 1.10 21 Multidisciplinary 7 0.96 22 Psychology 7 0.96 23 Energy 6 0.83 24 Neuroscience 6 0.83 25 Health Professions 5 0.69 26 Nursing 5 0.69 27 Decision Sciences 4 0.55 Total 726 100.00

From the analysis of above data, it was established that of total journals published. The minimum number of journals there are altogether 726 journals listed in SJR in all 27 (4) is published in India from Decision sciences subject disciplines out of which 185 journals are published in area comprising of 0.55% of total publications. Medicine which is the maximum and comprises of 25.48%

Table 3- Number and percentage of journals in four disciplines selected for study.

Subject wise distribution of Journals in four disciplines S/N Subject No. of Journals Percentage 1 Business management and Accounting 16 22.22 2 Economics, Econometrics and Finance 8 11.11

3 Multidisciplinary 7 9.72

4 Social Sciences 41 56.94

Total 72 100.00

Table 4 shows the sub-category of four subjects selected there are altogether 3 sub-categories where there are 3 for study and the number of journals published under each journals from Economics and Econometrics,4 journals from subcategory. An analysis of the table shows that there are 9 Economics, Econometrics and Finance and 1 journal from sub-categories of Business Management and Accounting in Finance. There is no sub-category in Multidisciplinary area. which there are journals from each category in India except In Social Sciences there are 24 sub-categories each Accounting, Industrial Relations, Management of consisting of journals except Archeology, Demography, E- Technology and Innovation, Organisational Behaviour, learning, Human factors and Ergonomics, Life Span and Human Resource Management and Tourism, Leisure & Life Course Studies, Public administration, Safety Reach, Hospitality Management where there are no specific Transportation and urban Studies in which there are no journals in India. In Economics, Econometrics and Finance journals in India as per SJR.

Table 4

Sub Category of Subjects in SJR in Four selected Disciplines Subject Area Sub Categories No. of Journals Accounting 0 Business and International Management 4 Business Management and Accounting 4 Industrial Relations 0 Management information System 2 Business Management and Accounting Management of Technology and Innovation 0 Marketing 1 Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 0 Strategy Management 5

Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management 0 Total 16 Economics and Econometrics 3 Economics, Econometrics and Finance Economics, Econometrics and Finance 4 Finance 1 Total 8 Multidisciplinary Multidisciplinary 7 Anthropology 3 Archeology 0 Communication 3 Cultural Studies 3 Demography 0 Development 4 Education 3 E-Learning 0 Gender Studies 2 Geography, Planning and Development 4 Health(Social Sciences) 3 Human Factors and Ergonomics 0 Law 3

Library and information Sciences 3 Life Span and Life Course Studies 0 Social Sciences Linguistics and Language 1 Political Science and International Relations 3 Public Administration 0 Safety research 0 Social Sciences(Miscellaneous) 2 Social Work 1 Sociology and Political Science 3 Transportation 0 Urban Studies 0 Total 41

5. RANKING OF JOURNALS AS PER SJR comparison of journals play a vital role. In this section, comparisons of journals have been done for the journals Comparison of Indian Journals published in India with published in India with the international level using SJR. International Level using SJR in Four Disciplines Ranking of 72 journals selected for study has been done To understand the quality of research and its importance depending on the number of journals that exist in each across discipline and to aid the researchers, funding subject categories. agencies, publishers and countries in research, a

Table 5

Ranking of Journals as per SJR(Business, Management and Accounting) SJR SJR Country in which Rank Indian Journal International Journal Score Score Published 1 Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management 0.786 Journal of Finance 17.973 United Kingdom International Journal of Systems Assurance 2 0.29 Journal of Financial Economics 13.636 Netherlands Engineering and Management 3 Indian Journal of Marketing 0.216 Journal of Labor Economics 13.59 United States

4 Prabandhan: Indian Journal of Management 0.215 Academy of Management Annals 12.701 United Kingdom

International Journal of Computer Information 5 0.21 Review of Financial Studies 12.516 United Kingdom Systems and Industrial Management Applications International Journal of Mathematical Engineering 6 0.208 Journal of Human Resources 12.363 United States and Management Science 7 Journal of South Asian Development 0.172 Academy of Management Journal 10.755 United States

8 International Journal of Economic Research 0.138 Journal of Accounting Research 10.151 United States

9 Journal of Digital Information Management 0.136 Academy of Management Review 9.316 United Kingdom 10 International Journal of Rural Management 0.126 Journal of Marketing 9.198 United States International Journal of Applied Business and 11 .114 Strategic Management journal 8.835 United States Economic Research 12 Journal of the Textile Association .107 Journal Of Management 7.936 United States 13 Purushartha .105 International Organisation 7.363 United Kingdom Annual Review of organizational 14 BTRA Scan .103 Psychology and Organizational 7.039 United States Behaviour International Journal of Hospitality and Tourism 15 - Journal of Marketing Research 6.895 United States Systems 16 SCMS Journal of Indian Management - Marketing Science 6.853 United States

Table 5 shows the comparison of Ranking of topmost and the comparison of 8 Indian journals with International the bottom most Journals published in India with the top 16 top 8 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance subject International Journals in the discipline of Business area. Significant differences are found between Indian Management and Accounting. Huge significant differences journals with international level. The International top were found between Indian journals with international level. journal titled ―Quarterly Journal of Economics‖ published The top title "Journal of Finance‖ is having SJR of 17.973 from UK is having SJR of 30.49 whereas Indian Journal and is published in United Kingdom (UK), whereas Indian titled ―Indian Economic and Social History Review‖ scored title "Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management" has an SJR of just 0.46. Like Business Management and a SJR of just 0.786. Out of 16 International journals, 10 Accounting subject area, no journals from India is having journals are published fromUSA,5 journals are published one plus SJR score in Economics, Econometrics and from UK and only one from Netherlands. Out of 16 Indian Finance area. Out of 8 top International journals, 4 journals Journals in Business, Management and Accounting area, are published in UK, 3 in USA and one from Netherlands. no journal is having one plus SJR score,1 journal has an Out of 8 Indian Journals in Economics, Econometrics and SJR greater than 0.5 the other journals have SJR below 0.5 Finance area, none of the journal has an SJR score of more and 2 journals do not have the SJR score. Table 6 shows than 1. The SJR score lies below 0.5 for all 8 journals.

Table 6

Ranking of Journals as per SJR (Economics, Econometrics and Finance) SJR SJR Country in which Rank Indian Journal International Journal Score Score Published Indian Economic and Social History 1 0.46 Quarterly Journal of Economics 30.49 United Kingdom Review 2 Economic and Political Weekly 0.299 Journal of Political Economy 22.902 United States 3 Indian Journal of Finance 0.201 Journal of Finance 17.973 United Kingdom 4 Journal of South Asian Development 0.172 Econometrica 17.635 United Kingdom International Journal of Economic 5 0.138 Review of Economic Studies 14.499 United Kingdom Research International Journal of Ecological 6 0.122 American Economic Journal 13.801 United States Economics and Statistics International Journal of Applied 7 0.114 Journal of Financial Economics 13.636 Netherlands Business and Economic Research International Journal of Development 8 0.103 Journal of Labor Economics 13.59 United States and Conflict 78 IJSTR©2020 www.ijstr.org INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC & TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH VOLUME 9, ISSUE 03, MARCH 2020 ISSN 2277-8616

Table 7 shows the comparison of 41 Indian journals with SJR scores. The Indian journal ―Gender Technology and the top 41 International journals in the area of Social Development‖ is at first position with SJR score of 0.561 Sciences. The ―MMWR (Morbidity and mortality weekly and ―Indian Economic and Social History Review‖ is at the report) Recommendations reports: ―Centers for Disease second position with 0.46 SJR score. A total of 25 journals Control‖ is on top at international level with an excellent are published from USA, 14 from UK and two journals SJR score of 48.894 and the "National vital statistics published from Netherlands. From the analysis of Indian reports: from the Centers for Disease Control and journals, it can be seen that the top has a SJR score of Prevention" is at the second position with the SJR score of greater than 0.5, the remaining journals have SJR score 27.31. The journals published in India are having very less below 0.5 and 1 journal which has no SJR score.

Table 7

Ranking of Journals as per SJR (Social Sciences) Country in which Rank Indian Journal SJR Score International Journal SJR Score Published 1 Gender Technology and Development 0.561 Centers for Disease Control 48.894 United States National vital statistics reports : from Indian Economic and Social History 2 0.46 the Centers for Disease Control and 27.31 United States Review Prevention MMWR. Surveillance summaries: International Journal of Cyber 3 0.417 Morbidity and mortality weekly report. 18.375 United States Criminology Surveillance summaries / CDC Journal of the Indian Society of Remote 4 0.311 Administrative Science Quarterly 13.521 United States Sensing 5 Journal of Creative Communications 0.309 American Journal of Political Science 9.602 United Kingdom 6 Economic and Political Weekly 0.299 Nature Climate Change 8.612 United Kingdom 7 Journal of Mid-Life Health 0.299 Review of Economics and Statistics 8.363 United States DESIDOC Journal of Library and MMWR. Morbidity and mortality 8 0.274 7.695 United States Information Technology weekly report Annals of Library and Information 9 0.235 International Organization 7.363 United Kingdom Studies 10 Asia Pacific Media Educato 0.21 Quarterly Journal of Political Science 6.609 United States 11 China Report 0.206 Journal of Consumer Research 6.59 United Kingdom 12 Indian Journal of Gender Studies 0.184 American Political Science Review 6.531 United Kingdom 13 Contributions to Indian Sociology 0.18 Political Analysis 6.126 United Kingdom Journal of Public Administration 14 Resonance 0.177 5.875 United Kingdom Research and Theory 15 Disaster Advances 0.174 American Sociological Review 5.862 United States 16 Journal of South Asian Development 0.172 Journal of Consumer Research 5.509 United States Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine and 17 0.155 Journal of Politics 5.266 United Kingdom Toxicology 18 Man in India 0.143 International Security 5.167 United States Journal of Personality and Social 19 Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics 0.142 5.029 United States Psychology International Journal of Ecology and 20 0.139 World Politics 5.028 United Kingdom Development Journal of Digital Information Educational Evaluation and Policy 21 0.136 5.021 United States Management Analysis 22 India Quarterly 0.131 Annual Review of Sociology 4.934 United States International Journal of Rural 23 0.126 Comparative Political Studies 4.855 United States Management Analytic Methods in Accident 24 Anthropologist 0.118 4.662 United Kingdom Research 25 Studies on Ethno-Medicine 0.118 Global Environmental Change 4.381 Netherlands 26 Indian Journal of Social Work 0.116 Progress in Human Geography 4.366 United States 27 Contemporary Education Dialogue 0.115 Journal of Conflict Resolution 4.341 United States 28 Journals of Intellectual Property Rights 0.115 Sociology of Education 4.334 United States Transactions of the Institute of Indian 29 0.113 American Journal of Sociology 4.327 United States Geographers 30 Media Watch 0.111 Public Administration Review 4.12 United Kingdom 31 Mens Sana Monographs 0.111 British Journal of Political Science 4.116 United Kingdom International Journal of Criminal Justice 32 0.109 Criminology 3.968 United States Sciences 33 Journal of Rural Development 0.106 Social Issues and Policy Review 3.919 United Kingdom Journal of Advanced Pharmacy 34 0.105 Journal of Organizational Behavior 3.88 United States Education and Research 79 IJSTR©2020 www.ijstr.org INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC & TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH VOLUME 9, ISSUE 03, MARCH 2020 ISSN 2277-8616

International Journal of Development 35 0.103 Cultural Anthropology 3.86 United States and Conflict 36 Journal of Content 0.102 Structural Equation Modeling 3.849 United States 37 Asian Agri-History 0.102 Journal of Peace Research 3.695 United States 38 Ramon Llull Journal of Applied Ethics 0.101 Stanford Law Review 3.675 United States 39 IUP Journal of English Studies 0.1 Western European Politics 3.668 United Kingdom 40 The Eastern Anthropologist 0.1 Educational Researcher 3.621 United States 41 Journal of Human Ecology - Journal of Quantitative Criminology 3.619 Netherlands

Table 8 shows the comparison of 7 Indian journals with There exists a significant difference between the SJR of international top 7 in the area of multidisciplinary. Indian Journals and International Journals in Prestigious journal ―Nature‖ is on top with SJR score of Multidisciplinary area. Among the 7 international journals, 4 16.345, published in UK followed by renowned journal are published from UK and 3 from USA. Out of 7 Indian ―Science‖ which is at second position with SJR score of Journals in Multidisciplinary, no journal from India is having 13.251 published from USA. The Indian Journal ―Journal of one plus SJR score. The top ranked Indian journal is having Scientific and Industrial Research ―is at first rank among an SJR score of below 0.5 and the remaining have Indian multidisciplinary journals with SJR score of 0.306. insignificant rankings.

Table 8

Ranking of Journals as per SJR(Multidisciplinary) Country in which Rank Indian Journal SJR Score International Journal SJR Score Published Journal of Scientific and 1 0.306 Nature 16.345 United Kingdom Industrial Research 2 Current Science 0.272 Science 13.251 United States 3 Science,technology and Society 0.272 Science Advances 6.267 United States Proceedings of the Journal of the Indian Institute of National Academy of 4 0.248 5.601 United States Science Sciences of the United States of America Sadhana - Academy 5 Proceedings in Engineering 0.231 National Science Review 1.896 United Kingdom Sciences 6 Resonance 0.177 Scientific Reports 1.414 United Kingdom Indian Journal of Science and Royal Society Open 7 0.143 1.131 United Kingdom Technology Science

Table 9 shows the top 10 Scimago country ranking in 2018 United States holds the first rank followed by China, United in terms documents, citable documents published, Kingdom and Germany. India holds the fifth rank as per maximum citations, self- citations, and citations per Scimago country ranking 2018 followed by Japan ,France, document and H index. On the basis of these indicators, Italy, Canada and Australia.

Table 9- Scimago Country-wise Ranking

Citations Citable Citation per Rank Country Documents Self-citations H index documents s documen t 1 United States 683003 570104 528530 268883 0.77 2222 2 China 599386 569227 399135 273126 0.67 794 3 United Kingdom 211710 172148 187806 60392 0.89 1373 4 Germany 180608 158437 154187 54430 0.85 1203 5 India 171356 152110 75947 33012 0.44 570 6 Japan 131198 118409 75593 25783 0.58 967 7 France 120908 106278 99743 27955 0.82 1094 8 Italy 119405 102581 106761 39371 0.89 953 9 Canada 111561 95047 94958 24325 0.85 1102 10 Australia 106228 89153 99374 28632 0.94 914

6. CONCLUSION highest ranked journal in both Economics, Econometrics Out of four subject areas considered for study, all the and Finance and Multidisciplinary is having an SJR score of journals published from India are having an SJR score of less than 0.5.There are no journals published in various less than 1.Out of 72 journals in the four disciplines , only subcategories in India. The study reveals that there are one journal from Business Management and Accounting is significant differences in the SJR scores of international having the highest SJR of 0.786.The top ranked journal in level journals and Indian journals. In the four subject areas, social sciences is having an SJR score of 0.561. The journals published from India are nowhere comparable with 80 IJSTR©2020 www.ijstr.org INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC & TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH VOLUME 9, ISSUE 03, MARCH 2020 ISSN 2277-8616 international level. India possesses the fifth rank globally as [3]. Mingers, J. and Yang, L. (2017). 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