Research is a life skill that you actually use in your day to day lives! It 's highly important to learn how to navigate through the research process and all of its steps. In doing so, you will refine and develop lifelong skills of information literacy.
The steps you need to take may vary from topic to topic, but the main idea behind each step will always remain the same. By planning out a research strategy, you will be better able to focus in on your topic, organize your search, manage your time efficiently, progress from general to specific resources, and understand when you have researched your topic thoroughly or if further examination is needed.
Remember that the research process takes time and effort! You should not expect to complete all of these steps in an hour.
Google Scholar Metrics provide an easy way for authors to quickly gauge the visibility and influence of recent articles in scholarly publications. Scholar Metrics summarize recent citations for many publications, to help authors as they consider where to publish their new research.
You can browse the top 100 publications in several languages, ordered by their five-year h-index and h-median metrics.
SCIMago Journal and Country Rank
The SCImago Journal & Country Rank is a portal that includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus® database (Elsevier B.V.). These indicators can be used to assess and analyze scientific domains.
APA Journal Statistic and Operations Data
Information about manuscript rejection rates, circulation data, publication lag time, and other journal statistics.
DataBank: Altmetrics & Article-Level Metrics (ALMs): Introduction
from Northwestern University Library
Assessing Journal Quality: AltMetrics
from Boston College
The aim of the DOAJ is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals, thereby promoting their increased usage and impact. The DOAJ aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content. In short, the DOAJ aims to be the one-stop shop for users of open access journals.
The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) is a trade association that was established in 2008 in order to represent the interests of Open Access (OA) journal publishers globally in all scientific, technical and scholarly disciplines.
Reviewing involves searching, selecting, evaluating and synthesizing the literature, not just reporting on what is says.
Searching the literature
Whether you are undertaking a traditional or systematic literature review it is important that you approach your searching in an organized and methodical manner.
Selecting the papers to use
You will not need to read all of the papers that your search finds, so don't worry if you find hundreds. If you are undertaking a systematic review, you will have particular criteria for including and excluding papers (which you will have to document in your methodology. For a traditional review, you can be more flexible. With both types of review, the process usually involves:
IngentaConnect is a distributor of content from academic journals.The site hosts a free directory of academic journals, that may be browsed by discipline. For each journal, IngentaConnect displays Tables of Content and also provides a link to publisher websites.