Core Journal Lists: Classic Tool, New Relevance

Abstract

ABSTRACT. Reviews the historical context of core journal lists, current uses in collection assessment, and existing methodologies for creating lists. Outlines two next generation core list projects developing new methodologies and integrating novel information/data sources to improve precision: a national-level core psychology list and the other a local institutional core list for the interdisciplinary field of urban studies and planning. The paper is based on the authors' panel presentation at the 2009 ACRL National Conference (Seattle, WA) entitled "Core Journal Lists Re-viewed and Re-imagined."

Scholarly Communication and Open Access in Psychology: Current Considerations for Researchers

“…In 2010, members of the Association of College and Research Libraries Psychology/Psychiatry Committee combined information from the major tools, Ulrich's Periodicals Directory, Elsevier's Scopus, and Thomson Reuters Web of Science in an attempt to create a type of "core journal list for psychology." (Paynter, Jackson, & Mullen, 2010) Commercial publishers are now making tools available where an author can search by keyword, draft title, some selected article text and other factors in attempts to find potential journals across the publishers' lists of thousands of journal titles to which to submit draft articles. Springer Journal Suggester (https://journalsuggester.springer.com/) and Wiley's Find a Journal service (https://authorservices.wiley.com/author-resources/Journal-Authors/find-ajournal/index.html) are two such examples.…”

Data Mashups as Collection Management Tools

“…In 2008, the Psychology Committee appointed a special task force to investigate whether to continue using the existing methodology to derive future core lists or to develop a new one. Ultimately, a new methodology was adopted that took advantage of a number of available data sources on the Internet to create a new, more valid and reliable metric in the form of a data mashup (Paynter, Jackson, and Mullen 2010). It is currently available at http://www.corepsychologyjournals.org.…”

Drilling deeper into the core: an analysis of journal evaluation methodologies used to create the “Basic List of Veterinary Medical Serials,” third edition

“…Often core lists are relied on because it is presumed that professionals have ''already performed the background work by assessing journal quality, relevance, subject and patron need'' [1]. Recent studies of core lists have explored the methodologies used for title selection and have described a wide spectrum of possible approaches to creating a core list, ranging from strictly bibliometric measures to processes based primarily on subjective opinion [2][3][4]. This article explores the impact of different criteria used to build a core list in veterinary medicine and compares resulting lists generated from each of these individual criteria.…”