Statistics & Data Science Graduate Orientation
Guide content supports the teaching and research goals of multiple departments on campus. Content represents a non-exhaustive selection of essential resources and tools for engaging a wide range of backgrounds and viewpoints.
- Finding scientific literature
- Finding datasets This link opens in a new window
- Citations
- ORCID and scholarly publishing This link opens in a new window
- Data managment This link opens in a new window
- Open Access publishing This link opens in a new window
- Journal credibility check tools
- More library resources
Finding a home for your research
Web of Science's Analyze Results function can help you identify a credible journal that is publishing research in your research area.
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Web of Science This link opens in a new windowSearch for your topic in Web of Science, then select Analyze results. You'll need find Publication Titles to see which journals have published relevant articles.
Tools to screen out predetory journals
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Journal Citation Reports or JCR Web This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive resource for journal evaluation, Journal Citation Reports (JCR) uses citation references culled from over 7,600 scholarly and technical journals worldwide and includes all specialties in the areas of science, technology, and social sciences. Data reveals the highest impact journals via journal impact factor, most frequently used journals, hottest journals, and largest journals. See the Web of Science .
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Think.Check.SubmitChecklists that will help you determine if a publisher or journal is credible or not.
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