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