Evaluating Scholarly Publications
Here are a number of resources that will help you find out more information about scholarly publication and journals.
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From Elsevier: three different impact metrics are all based on methodologies developed by external bibliometricians and use Scopus as the data source. Scopus is the largest citation database of peer-reviewed literature and features tools to track, analyze and visualize research output. Via this website, the three journal metrics are provided free of charge.
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Ranks publications in Google Scholar by analyzing the last five years of journal articles from websites that follow Google's inclusion guidelines as well as conference articles and preprints from a small number of manually identified sources. Excludes publications with less than 100 articles during the five-year period and those with no citations. The metrics provided are the h-index, h-core, h-median, h5-index, h5-core, and h5-median.
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Indicators have been calculated by Leiden University’s Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) based on the Scopus bibliographic database produced by Elsevier.
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A free and searchable database, journals listed in the Eigenfactor database may be searched by ISSN, publisher, year published, exact journal name or by using the Journal Citation Report ISI categories.
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Compiles rankings of journals from various sources in the areas of Economics, Finance, Accounting, Management, and Marketing.
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Directory of approximately 250,000 regularly and irregularly published journals, magazines, newspapers, and full-text electronic resources from more than 200 countries. Search or browse by title, keyword, subject, ISSN or publisher; list and sorting options; and highlights of new, changed, and ceased titles.
Rights and Permissions For Your Work
Learn more about your rights as an author.
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"When you decide to publish an article in a peer-reviewed journal, you own the full copyrights to that article. If you publish in an open access journal, you retain your full copyrights. However, if you choose to publish in a traditional subscription access journal, you will be required to sign a form transferring some – or all – of your copyrights to that publisher. That doesn’t have to be the end of the story."
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Use this site to find a summary of permissions that are normally given as part of each publisher's copyright transfer agreement.
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A database of copyright contacts for writers, artists, and prominent people in other creative fields.
Go Open!
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Open Access Library GuideGive your research more exposure by publishing in an Open Access journal! Learn about OA journals and grant opportunities to cover article processing charges.
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CSU Fullerton ScholarWorksThis institutional repository is designed to preserve and openly share the scholarly and creative works of members of the CSU Fullerton community to a global audience.
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Open Access Publishing FundsThese funds aims to reduce the financial barriers presented by Author Publication Charges (APCs) that might prevent faculty and students from publishing in peer-reviewed, open access journals.
Faculty Development Center
Create or Connect Your ORCID iD
An ORCID ID is a digital identifier that distinguishes you from other researchers and links your work across publishers to one place.
Click this button to create a new ORCID iD, or to connect your ORCID iD to CSU Fullerton.
Once connected, you can log into your ORCID account using your CSUF network credentials.