The Method Underlying the DGLR Top 40
Aerospace Journal Ranking |
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Selection
of Journals |
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Obviously
the selection of the journals is critical. Journals not selected can not
score in the ranking. |
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Many
journals have a relevance to "aerospace". Considered are here
predominantly only those journals with a general focus on aeronautical
engineering or space engineering. |
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Not
considered are more general journals (e.g. about engineering) that may also
have a substantial portion of aerospace papers. |
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Not
considered are more specialized journals in particular fields within
aerospace. |
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Not
considered are e.g. journals specialized in turbo machinery or fluid
dynamics. |
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The
selection of considered aerospace journals started with journals from existing
Aerospace Journal Rankings: |
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Google
Scholar |
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SCOPUS
(CWTS and SJR) |
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Journal
Guide (JG) |
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University
of Illinois (U) |
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All
20 journals from Google Scholar's ranking were considered
(this also caused the inclusion of one magazine and three conferences) |
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All
other journal rankings had to be weeded out, because many
included journals did just not make sense here. Not taken were: |
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journals
not actively publishing anymore |
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journals
not publishing in English |
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journals
only working in print with not even a journal web page |
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journals
too general or too specialized inside or outside of aerospace (see above). |
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Not
covered by any of the above selection methods, but
covered anyhow are: |
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for
the Impact Factor and SNIP: |
International Journal of Satellite
Communications and Networking |
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Aerospace Medicine and Human
Performance |
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only
for the Impact Factor: |
ESA bulletin. Bulletin ASE. European
Space Agency |
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for
the free Open Access option: |
INCAS Bulletin |
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Other Open Access journals with a
free Open Access option are available, but have not been selected, because
they are less "established". |
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See for more information: |
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SCHOLZ, Dieter, 2014. Publication
Options Suitable for Aircraft Design. - Open Access Journals Edited by
Members of European Aerospace Organizations. |
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(4th Symposium on Collaboration in
Aircraft Design, 25. to 27.11.2014, Toulouse, France). |
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Available from: |
http://oa.profscholz.de |
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Direct Link: |
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http://www.fzt.haw-hamburg.de/pers/Scholz/OA/OA_PRE_SCAD_14-11-25.pdf |
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for
the affiliation with DGLR: |
CEAS Aeronautical Journal |
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It
is acknowledged that every such selection is in the end subjective. This is
the selection that made sense to me. |
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Certainly,
it could be weeded out further e.g. by eliminating magazins and conferences. |
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Ranking
of Journals |
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Three
indexing metrics were selected: |
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Impact
Factor |
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Google
Scholar h5-Index |
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SNIP
from SCOPUS |
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All
journals were ranked according to these three metrics. |
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A
journal without a value in the related metric was assigned the next highest
integer. E.g. if the ranking runs up to 20 (Google) all journals without a
Google ranking were assigned the ranking 21. |
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The average
of these three journal rankings is the (overall) Index. |
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A ranking
in accordance with the overall Index is the (overall) DGLR
Aerospace Journal Ranking. |
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The
ranking is based only on available information on the WWW. This has the
advantage that input data can be checked by everyone. |
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Not
considered are disclosed journal rankings from the Journal Citation Reports. |
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