Journal ranking lists
Find journal ranking list in Scopus, SCIMago and Google Scholar.
Scopus
Journal ranking by subject
- Click Sources on the top tool bar
- Click Enter subject area
- Select a subject or sub-subject from the dropdown list and click Apply
- The default ranking is by CiteScore, you can sort the ranking by other metrics, e.g. SNIP or SJR
Compare journals
You may use the Compare Sources tool to compare up to 10 journals at a time. This is useful for selecting journals for publishing. Watch a short video Comparing sources in Scopus or find more details in Scopus How do I compare sources guide.
SCIMago
SCIMago is a free portal for finding journal and country rankings developed from the information contained in the Scopus database.
- Click Journal Rankings from the top toolbar of the website
- Select a subject form All subject areas and select a category from All subject categories
Google Scholar
Browse the following top publications:
- Top 100 publications.
- Click Categories to find top 20 publications for a subject category. Each subject also contains a number of subcategories.
Other ranking lists
Arts and humanities
European Science Foundation: European reference index for the humanities (ERIH)
Australian Political Studies Association preferred journal list
Business
Association of Business Schools (ABS): academic journal guide
Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) journal quality list (2019)
Journal quality list by Prof. Anne Harzing (68th edition, 2021)
50 journals used in Financial Time research rank
Computing and information systems
Association for Information Systems: MIS journal rankings
Computer science conference rankings
IS journal ranking by the Australian Council of Professors and Heads of Information Systems (2013)
Education
Australian Teacher Education Association teacher education journals - membership requried.
Law
Washington and Lee University School of Law: law journals ranking - a search tool to rank law journals by a number of ranking criteria, such as combined-score ranking, impact factor, journal cites and case cites.
ERA 2018 journal list
Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) is the Australia's national research evaluation framework administered by the Australian Research Council (ARC) since 2010.
ARC used a ranked journal list for the ERA 2010 and ERA 2012 evaluations. Both EAR 2010 and 2012 journal ranking lists are no longer relevant.
In the latest ERA 2018, a list of more than 25,000 journals was used for measuring research performance. However, the ERA 2018 journal list did not include a journal ranking system.