Optometry and Vision Sciences Faculty Resources: Finding Journals by Metrics

Welcome to Journal Citations Reports

1. Search to find a single journal title.
2. Browse to find a group of journals by topic.

• Click Browse by Category.
• Click See all [number] categories.
• Click Filter, then the arrow next to Categories.
• Click Clinical Medicine, then select Ophthalmology.
• Click Apply.
• Click on the number in the # of Journals column.

Ophthalmology falls under the Medicine category. "SNIP measures a source’s contextual citation impact by weighting citations based on the total number of citations in a subject field."

Google Scholar also collects journal metrics (h5-index and h5-median).

"h5-index is the h-index for articles published in the last 5 complete years. It is the largest number h such that h articles published in 2013-2017 have at least h citations each."

"h5-median for a publication is the median number of citations for the articles that make up its h5-index."

1. From the Google Scholar homepage, click on the 3 parallel bars in the upper left corner
2. Click on Metrics
3. Click on the arrow to the right of Categories
4. Select Health & Medical Sciences
5. Click on the arrow to the right of Subcategories
6. Select Ophthalmology & Optometry