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Literature search: Journal search

Overall guide for literature search

Journal search

A journal search is a process of finding scientific articles, research papers or academic content published in peer-reviewed journals.

Search

In academic databases, journals can be found by title using the advanced search option. For example, to search for the Journal of European Public Policy, enter the title in quotation marks. You can also search within journals by article title.

advanced search: first row publication title, second row title of  the article

Full text access

You can get access to the full text of the journal via RUQuest. In RUQuest you can either search for journals by selecting “journal/magazine” in the advanced search, or by filtering on journals in your search results. More on searching for articles and journals in RUQuest.

Journal Search in RUQuest

Searching for high ranking journals

If specific journals have a relatively high impact in their field it might be useful to focus on these to find relevant publications. There are multiple ways to search for high ranking journals.

Ranking of journals

Journal Impact Factor

Measures the average impact of original research articles and review articles appearing in the same  journal. Access via the Journal Citation Reports in Web of Science.

Eigenfactor

Citations to articles from the most recent five full years, divided by the total number of articles from the most recent five full years. Citations from highly ranked journals are given more weight than others. Access via the Journal Citation Reports in Web of Science.

Scimago Journal Rank

Scimago Journal Rank (SJR indicator) is based on the number of citations and the prestige of the journals. Access via Scimago Journal

SJR is included in our journal library Browzine

h5-index

The h-index for articles published in the last five complete calendar years, h is the largest number of articles that have been cited h times. Access via Google Scholar.