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Conferences, Journals: h-index, Impact

Cultural heritage journals, especially digital heritage journals (and a few related conferences) don’t fare well at SJR-Journal Search. Compare their H-index and Quartiles to games journals and conferences. In the more VR side of things, Presence still does quite well but Virtual Reality journal is not doing as well as I expected.*

*CAVEAT: In many cases the latest figures seem to be from 2017 or 2018.

How many Digital Humanities Journals would be in the Quality Tier in Australia?

Possibly only two!

Although I am on the board of Journal of Interactive Humanities (ISSN: 2165-7564) there is no SJR as of yet.
http://scholarworks.rit.edu/jih/

For future reference: a Berkeley list of DH journals is here (I was briefly on the board of JITP but I don’t all the listed journals that well)
http://digitalhumanities.berkeley.edu/resources/digital-humanities-journals
Only Digital Humanities Quarterly would I argue for from that list but SJR of DHQ not listed at http://www.scimagojr.com/
Although it sems to have an SJR rank at http://www.coolcite.com/journal/20117 but I cannot vouch for this quality pro or con of this website!
So a note to DH journal editors, please try to reach a reasonable SJR ranking as I think this metric will become more and more popular with research organisations!

Publishing in digital heritage and related areas

Due to my current role I have to help grade journals, so as a bit of a test, I had a look at the h index and SJR value of journals roughly in my area (areas?) of research.I used SJR and Google Scholar metrics. They calculate h value differently (the latter has an h5 for 5 years rating) but it was interesting to compare. Individual conferences can score highly but are hard to compare to journals as they appear to be often rated individually rather than as a series. SIGGRAPH is one of the exceptions (Google, SCIMAGOJR) but compare to CHI (google, SCIMAGOJR?)

http://www.scimagojr.com/help.php

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank) indicator: It expresses the average number of weighted citations received in the selected year by the documents published in the selected journal in the three previous years, –i.e. weighted citations received in year X to documents published in the journal in years X-1, X-2 and X-3. See detailed description of SJR .

H Index: The h index expresses the journal’s number of articles (h) that have received at least h citations. It quantifies both journal scientific productivity and scientific impact and it is also applicable to scientists, countries, etc. (see H-index wikipedia definition).

TARGETED JOURNALSH-indexSJRGoogle tag h5
New Media and Society462.1445
Journal of Computer mediated communication641.9636
Cultural Geographies281.4618
Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory271.0613
Critical Inquiry291.0217
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies760.9933
Media, Culture & Society320.9624
games and culture230.7521
Journal of Cultural Heritage290.6819
International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction350.6225
Critical Studies in Media Communication250.6213
MIT Presence590.5518
Simulation & Gaming320.4525
International Journal of Heritage studies160.4214
International Journal of Heritage in the Digital Era160.426
International Journal of Architectural Computing40.4210
Virtual Reality240.4015
Space and Culture160.3813
Entertainment Computing (journal, conference)70.3510
Journal of Computing and Cultural Heritage80.32?
Digital Creativity80.2910
Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds320.2715
game studies130.19?
Internet Archaeology20.10?
CHI conference Computer Human Interaction78