title: Prestige versus citation volume as journal indices in cognitive neuroscience.
abstract: In recent years, alternative measures of a journal's influence have been developed to those based on citation metrics (such as Impact Factor). This includes the Scimago Journal Rank (SJR) which is adapted from algorithms used to prioritize webpages in search engines. It is considered a measure of "prestige" insofar as it takes into account the importance of links/citations and not just their total number. Taking a sample of 38 journals from within the field of cognitive neuroscience, it is shown that SJR and Impact Factor correlate highly (r = .83) but with a few large discrepancies in rankings. This journal, Cognitive Neuroscience, fares better on the prestige-based measure than might otherwise be expected from its citation-based rank.
authors.affiliation: a School of Psychology , University of Sussex , Brighton , UK.
authors.forename: Jamie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ward
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003071:Cognition; D006801:Humans; D055811:Journal Impact Factor; D009488:Neurosciences; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*