Where to publish?

An interesting and useful service is now made available to authors from Lund University (courtesy of Håkan Carlsson).

"Journal Info service gives fast and simple access to journal information: general, accessibility, cost (quality and each area is supported by a number of relevant points). You can e.g. find in which databases a journal is indexed, how much it costs for the library to subscribe and which alternative OA journals exists. A total of 18,000 journals are currently supported in the database."

Library and information science area, for instance, covers 319 titles. When checking "quality" one can see databases indexing the journal, journal eigenfactor, article influence, FRIDA score and ISI impact factor (available to Journal Citation Report subscribers).
One can also check what are alternative titles with open access.

Top ten journals in information science?

Controversial issues of impact factor as a measure of a journal's importance are well documented. We can often read about misuse, manipulation and skewness of this measurements. The ASIS&T; SIGMETRICS list is, for instance, a good forum to discuss all these problems.

However, in spite of all reservations, most of us like to keep an eye on Thompsons ISI citation index, whatever conclusions we may draw from it.

Here are what appear to be the most frequently cited journals in 2005 (for the sake of the simplicity of this message I had to leave out "Immediacy Index","Cited Half life", and "number of articles in 2005" which are all needed to get a full picture - see calculation... but anyway).

	Total Cites	Impact Factor
JASIST	2552	1.583
Management Information Systems Quarterly	2395	4.978
J. of Am Medical Informatics Association	2040	4.339
Scientometrics	1406	1.738
Information & Management, Amst.	1230	1.524
Journal Of Management Information Systems	1167	1.406
Int. Journal of Geographical Information Science	960	1.562
Information Systems Research	949	2.054
Journal of Information Technology	347	1.543
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology	298	2.652