How can I determine a journal's rating?
According the university's Open Access procedures, the university will pay the APC for articles that are published in journals rated in the top 10%. How can I determine if a journal is rated in the top 10%?
Answer
To determine a journal's ranking, following these steps:
- Go to Scopus
- Click on "Sources" at the top right of the page
- Change the search to "Title" and enter the title in the field. Click "Search"
- In the results, find the "Highest percentile" for that journal. If the percentile is 90% or higher, the journal is in the top 10%. (In other words, subtract the highest percentile from 100, and that tells you where the journal is rated. If 100 - [the percentile] is 20, then the journal is rated in the top 20%.
There is more information about this here: https://library.ku.ac.ae/oa/ratings.