Measures of Journal Quality and Impact tools, techniques and methods: an overview

Abstract

Measuring and evaluating of quality of research journal, article, creator,
publisher etc are now very much important in the age of digital era. Traditionally,
journals are ranking using various traditional indicators like total citations, average
citations and Journal Impact Factor (JIF). Due to advancement of S&T
diverse tools, techniques and methods (indicators) like h-index, SJR, CiteScore
etc. have been developed. To rank the journals and authors several indicators should
be used to justify the quality of research performance. In this paper, discussed on
various metrics with their strength, weakness and possibility of access to draw a
guideline path for the researcher. Journal may be ranked based on different types
of indicators at a time. No indicator is supreme as per study of their weakness, but
desirable quality of the researcher, journal and other associated bodies should be
measured based on quality of the article not the benefits in terms of money.