Journals Directory – The very much sought after Repository for scientific publications. Before registering with our database all journals need to go through our scrutinization and examination. Our specialists in Review Board perform meticulous assessment and critical evaluation which produce an Impact Factor Metric. Through this metric the strength of the journal is assessed and calibrated as it helps in ranking and quantifying its strength.

Our citation metric assists authors in comparing, analyzing and ranking from the vast list of published journals.

EVALUATION METHODOLOGY

Evaluation Methodology of journals – Journals directory is like an Ocean for intellectual journals where our endeavor is to cover the vast array of journal titles. A Unique selection criterion is developed for selection and inclusion of any title.

STAGE ONE: Basic Inclusion Criteria

It points out to the least but very important requirements over which the journal would be assessed.

FACTORS

• Journal should strive for giving some value to the academia.
• Should make an effort to make the procedure of circulation of scientific work easier.
• Should give an easy access to the readers.
• Journal is also evaluated on some demographic factors.
• Acceptance Rate of journal
• Journals need to be archived for ejournals with the option of self-archiving.
• Retaining of copyrights with the author.

FUNDAMENTAL REQUIREMENTS

• ISSN No. needs to be there with the journals (printed or online).
• Title must be published in English Language.
• At least one issue must be published every year.
• Diversification in the affiliations of Editorial Board Members.
• The age of the journal must be two years old with minimum two issues every year.
• Need to follow some quality control measures.

The refining process of a Journal does not end here, in fact there is another Process through which advanced evaluation of the journal is carried out to assess its quality. This brings us to second stage.

STAGE TWO: BASIC INCLUSION CRITERIA

This technical parameter calibrates the quality of the content the journal carries to which research domain it belongs. The metric is explained through following stages:

• It entails garnering of the journal’s metadata depends on various factors like number of volumes published , frequency of issues, number of articles per issue, affiliations of the authors, and the article titles to assess the research scope with reference to the journal’s scope.
• In this step a weighted average is carried out for the data collected in the last stage, each variable is allotted with different weight which is assessed through an algorithm.
• Information is gathered in this stage which can be accessed through various international database like -*Google Scholar* DOAJ* CrossRef *PubMed *Research Gate.

This information is utilized in two ways – First, Journal Impact Factor score board is given some percentage through these indexes. Second, the assessment of the quality and the citation round of articles is done through the information gathered from the above mentioned source. Here again, the weighted score is evaluated.

• Here the weighted scores that are obtained so far in these stages are arranged in ascending order. Lastly, the Impact Factor of journal is decided through percentile score system.

After the submission of JD Impact Factor evaluation survey, the complete evaluation and allocation of JD Impact Factor Score is calculated in about a month.