Further information

For assistance

Contact your Academic Library Services Team or Ask the library

Other workshops

• Keeping up to date
• Database searching for your research

On campus training

• Calendar of sessions

Further reading

There is a large amount of literature written about publishing, impact factors, and citation analysis of publications. Use one of the following to find literature about your area of interest:

• Thomson Reuters have a number of essays on citation analysis and impact factors.
• ScienceWatch publishes studies undertaken by Thomson Reuters focusing on highly cited research.
• Databases in your subject area. Select a relevant database. Use keywords such as “impact factor”, “journals” and your subject area (e.g. “health”) to retrieve articles about impact factors and sometimes ranked lists of journals.
• Use your favourite search engine to find a list of titles. Enter keywords such as “impact factor” and keywords from the journal title, publisher or subject area
• Writing for publication, volume 3 of the Academic's support kit, by Kenway, Epstein and Boden, provides some useful information about getting published, both in academic journals and books, and also the business of writing and publishing. The Library provides access to this work both electronically and in print.