This is very good but tricky. It searches for the word from the journal title to rank it. For example, I searched for a word 'resonance' and it ranked 16th among the 'resonance spectroscopy' journals! Actually the 'Resonance' published by IAS it has nothing to do with that resonance. Regards, - Murari Tapaswi -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of Shamprasad Pujar Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 10:16 AM To: lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Google starts ranking journals Dear Members, Google has started ranking journals! Through its new service called '*Google Scholar Metrics*' currently it cover articles *published between 2007 and 2011*, both inclusive. The metrics are based on citations from *all articles* that were indexed in Google Scholar as of *April 1st, 2012*. This also includes citations from articles that are not themselves covered by Scholar Metrics. To know which are the top 20 journals in a particular subject area just type the subject. For example; Economics, Statistics, Mathematics etc using the following URL address. Once you get Google Scholar search box replace 'Economics' with name of other subject. http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_venues&vq=economics To know more about this new service, please go through Google Scholar at: http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/metrics.html Thanks to Garry for his posting on this. The full blog posting on Significance magazine is at: http://www.significancemagazine.org/details/webexclusive/1788885/Google-star... anking-journals.html best Regards, Dr Shamprasad M. Pujar Deputy Librarian Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Gen Vaidya Marg, Goregaon (East) MUMBAI-400 065, India Phone: ++91-22-2841 6547 E-mail: pujar@igidr.ac.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.