The Library has purchased the Nature journal archives. The full text is now available back to volume 1 issue 1, 1869. The Library also has Science back to 1880 which is also volume 1. The Web of Science database indexes these journals back to 1900.

There are two new journal ranking tools freely available on the internet.

SCImago Journal & Country Rank — Data from Scopus (13,200 journals)

Eigenfactor — Data from Thomson (8,000 journals)

The SJR indicator (from SCImago Journal & Country Rank) and the Eigenfactor take the ISI Impact Factor one step further. They incorporated a PageRank algorithm from Google to weight the citing journals. The ISI Impact Factor counts the number of cites to papers in a journal but does not distinguish if the citing paper is published in a prestigious journal or a not so highly ranked journal. The SJR indicator and the Eigenfactor take into account the ranking of the citing journal.

Further reading:
Free journal-ranking tool enters citation market

Impact factors and Scimago JR compared

Eigenfactor: Measuring the value and prestige of scholarly journals

Want to know your h-index? The h-index was proposed by JE Hirsh (UCSD) in 2005 and defined as “the number of papers with citation number higher or equal to h”. You can calculate your h-index on Web of Science (WOS) by conducting a General search for your papers. Enter your surname and initials in the Author box, limit by “Univ Queensland” (or other Institution) in Address box and then, on the results screen, select Citations Report. Follow the link to read Hirsh’s paper, An index to quantify an individual’s scientific research output.