Library Support for Researchers: Series 2: Understanding journal metrics before you submit

When deciding where to submit your manuscript, it’s important to understand common journal metrics to help you decide which journal is right for your research.

Below, we’ve listed some of the most common journal metrics. The “JCR Year” refers to the Journal Citation Report year, which is the individual year for which a metric is provided.

Metric Name	Metric Source	Metric Description
Impact Factor	Web of Science	The Impact Factor is the average number of times articles from the journal published in the past two years have been cited in the JCR year. The Impact Factor is calculated by dividing the number of citations in the JCR year by the total number of articles published in the two previous years.
5-Year Impact Factor	Web of Science	The 5-year Impact Factor is the average number of times articles from the journal published in the past five years have been cited in the JCR year. It is calculated by dividing the number of citations in the JCR year by the total number of articles published in the five previous years.
Altmetrics	(Any source)	Altmetrics go beyond more traditional citation metrics to measure social visibility around scientific articles. These metrics are based on a broad spectrum of indicators, such as tweets, blog mentions, news media, social bookmarking, article views, and downloads.
Eigenfactor	Web of Science	The Eigenfactor is based on weighted citations in the JCR year to papers published within the previous 5 years. Citations are weighted according to the prestige of the citing journal, with citations from highly ranked journals making a larger contribution to the Eigenfactor than those from poorly ranked journals.
Google Scholar Metrics	Google Scholar	The main Google Scholar journal metric is the H5 index and is based on articles published in the last 5 complete calendar years. This is similar to the h-Index but also includes the top cited h articles (h-core) and the median of the citation counts (h-median).
h-index	Web of Science, Google Scholar, or Scopus	The h-index attempts to measure the productivity and citation impact of the published body of work of an author. The h-index indicates the number of papers, h, that have been cited at least htimes (e.g. an h-index of 15 means that 15 papers have been cited at least 15 times each.) Note: Due to variations in citation coverage between databases, each source may determine a different value of the h-index for each author.
Immediacy Index	Web of Science	The Immediacy Index is the average number of times an article is cited in the year it is published. The Immediacy Index is calculated by dividing the number of citations to articles published in a given year by the number of articles published in that year.
SJR	Scopus	The SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) Indicator is based on weighted citations in Year X to papers published in the previous 3 years. Citations are weighted by the prestige of the citing journal, so that a citation from a top journal will have more impact than a citation from a low-ranked journal.
SNIP	Scopus	The Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) measures average citations in Year X to papers published in the previous 3 years. Citations are weighted by the citation potential of the journal’s subject category, thereby making the metric more comparable across different disciplines.

Source: https://authorservices.wiley.com/author-resources/Journal-Authors/find-a-journal/journal-metrics.html (Accessed on 12th November 2021)

ONLINE DEMO OF OURIGINAL ANTI PLAGIARISM SOFTWARE

Dear Faculty Members and Research Scholars,

Kindly join for the demo in advance at 11.30 am. Joining link and password has been shared with all.

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Library Support for Researchers: Series 1: Journal Finder / Suggester: Find the Best Journal for Your Research Article

IEEE Publication Recommender: https://publication-recommender.ieee.org/home

Elsevier: https://journalfinder.elsevier.com/

Springer: https://journalsuggester.springer.com/

Wiley: https://journalfinder.wiley.com/search?type=match

Taylor and Francis: https://authorservices.taylorandfrancis.com/publishing-your-research/choosing-a-journal/journal-suggester/

Open Journal Matcher: https://ojm.ocert.at/

READING INSPIRATION DAY 2021: REPORT

 READING INSPIRATION DAY 2021

We salute APJ Abdul Kalam and celebrate his monumental achievements as a Scientist, Scholar and the President of India. We fondly remember his passion for teaching education and for reading. Dr. Kalam truly ignited young minds with the power to think and innovate. Dr. Kalam is not with us today but his thoughts, ideals and vision for India live on forever.

As part of the virtual celebrations, the library conducted the following two events in collaboration with the NDLI Club:

1. Online Quiz on the Life and Times of Dr. A.P. J. Abdul Kalam

2. Online Book Review Competition

3. Book Exhibition for the faculty members of SFIT

                                                    Poster for the Quiz Contest

24 students participated in the Online Quiz conducted as part of the Reading Inspiration Day.

Online Book Review Contest

Book Exhibition: 160 books were kept in the exhibition.

22 books were selected by faculty members (Ms. Josna Jose and Ms. Varsha Thandasarry) of the Electrical Engineering Department for their Departmental Library from the Book Exhibition.

As part of the virtual events, the library launched the following:

Wakelet on Dr. A.P. J. Abdul Kalam - https://wakelet.com/wake/3t6vUJO2hXrmqHe4MRfsF

Padlet: https://padlet.com/sfitlibraryreference/zs4m6k35fys49ulw

Booklets on Cyber Safety & Security for students

 Be Safe in Cyber World: Do's and Dont's for Teachers

 Be Safe in Cyber World: Do's and Dont's for Students

For More resources, please visit the following URL:

https://ciet.nic.in/pages.php?id=booklet-on-cyber-safetysecurity&ln=en&ln=en

Quiz on Cyber Safety & Security

October is celebrated as National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) globally. In order to bring attention to Cyber Security and as a concentrated effort to stay safe and secure online, NCSAM is celebrated all over the world. It is an initiative to put conscious efforts towards ensuring better cybersecurity hygiene and incorporate stronger security measures.

With this objective, DSCI drove a month-long awareness campaign under the guidance of the National Cyber Security Secretariat. The campaign disseminated various content artifacts and reached out to 3.25 million citizens throughout the country.

Many interesting quizzes have been launched on the myGov portal to test the knowledge and readiness level of citizens around Cyber Security. The overall objective of the Quiz was to create Cyber Security awareness among citizens, to achieve a better security posture for the country, and to empower online users to remain Safe Online. 

Participate and earn reward certificates: https://quiz.mygov.in/quiz/securing-digital-space/

Source: https://www.mygov.in/

This HR leader has an engineering degree

hey say there’s gold but I’m

looking for thrills

You can get your hands on

whatever we find

Because I’m only coming

along for the ride

Protima Achaya loves music, but her all-time favourite remains Pink Floyd’s album The Dark Side of the Moon.

Born in Mysuru to an army officer, Protima had been to six schools by the time she was in class 12. She did not have any place to sink her roots into. But this life made her comfortable with change.

Protima was good at studies. She had different ‘what I want to be when I grow up’ answers at different points of time – playback singer, hospitality, businesswoman, chief of staff at Tata Group. Protima finally landed up in the engineering college now known as NIT Surathkal for a BE in electronics and communication.

Being one of the few girls in the college, life was not easy. It was Protima’s first experience in navigating her way in a male dominated world. And she literally rocked. She joined the college band, and became the first girl in the history of the college to perform on stage.

Post college, she worked in an electronics consulting company, and then in the defence research establishment, LRDE, in its digital signal processing lab.

Protima then took a seven-year break from paid work to look after her kid.

Her second innings at paid work was different. She was briefly in an AutoCAD startup, and then she took up a completely unexpected role – as festival coordinator for the Udaipur film festival. She went on to work with the team that created the country’s first ever reality show, Meri Awaz Suno.

In 2000, she had to move to Bengaluru, where she joined Sasken. Here, she burned the midnight oil to learn the ropes of HR. She credits Sasken’s leadership for giving her the opportunity to prove herself. “They appreciated my point of view, which was not grounded in HR theory but more from real-life experiences. So success is not always tied to a degree. I do not hold an HR degree, but that was the start of my HR career, and I have been in it for 21 years,” she says.

After 10 years with Sasken, Protima moved to Cisco, and then to NetApp. She now leads HR and talent acquisition for Apac and India at NetApp. “HR today has to be a lot more agile in responding to the needs and expectations of employees,” she says. 

Source: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/this-hr-leader-has-an-engineering-degree/articleshowprint/86982239.cms