Top 20 Journals in Social Sciences Ranked by h5-index (2024)
- April 26, 2024
- Posted by: IRP Academy
- Category: Journals
List of Top Journals in Social Sciences Ranked by h5-index (2024)
Publication | h5-index | h5-median | |
1 | Computers & Education | 147 | 223 |
2 | Journal of Business Ethics | 136 | 192 |
3 | Nature Human Behaviour | 114 | 196 |
4 | Business Strategy and the Environment | 105 | 154 |
5 | Social Science & Medicine | 105 | 144 |
6 | New Media & Society | 103 | 169 |
7 | Land Use Policy | 103 | 130 |
8 | Energy Research & Social Science | 102 | 151 |
9 | Research Policy | 101 | 152 |
10 | American Journal of Public Health | 95 | 151 |
11 | Current Issues in Tourism | 94 | 143 |
12 | Cities | 93 | 121 |
13 | Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management | 92 | 144 |
14 | Education and Information Technologies | 91 | 125 |
15 | Global Environmental Change | 90 | 132 |
16 | Resources Policy | 89 | 124 |
17 | Teaching and Teacher Education | 88 | 142 |
18 | Health Affairs | 87 | 142 |
19 | British Journal of Educational Technology | 86 | 110 |
20 | Annals of Tourism Research | 85 | 133 |
What is h5-index?
The h5-index is a bibliometric indicator created by Google Scholar that measures the number of articles published in the last five years that have at least h citations each. The h is the largest number of articles that have each been cited h times. For example, an h5-index of 60 means that a journal has published 60 articles in the past five years that have 60 or more citations each.
You can find the h5-index on scholar.google.com.
The h5-median for a publication is the median number of citations for the articles that make up its h5-index.
Journal Impact in Google Scholar
- h-index of a publication is the largest number h such that at least h articles in that publication were cited at least h times each. For example, a publication with five articles cited by, respectively, 17, 9, 6, 3, and 2, has the h-index of 3.
- h-core of a publication is a set of top cited h articles from the publication. These are the articles that the h-index is based on. For example, the publication above has the h-core with three articles, those cited by 17, 9, and 6.
- h-median of a publication is the median of the citation counts in its h-core. For example, the h-median of the publication above is 9. The h-median is a measure of the distribution of citations to the articles in the h-core.
What are h5-index and h5-median
- h5-index is the h-index for articles published in the last 5 complete years. For example, h5-index for 2023 is the largest number h such that h articles published in 2018-2022 have at least h citations each.
For example,
For 2023, h5-index for Nature of 365 means that 365 articles published in Nature in 2018-2022 have received at least 365 citations each.
- h5-median for a publication is the median number of citations for the articles that make up its h5-index
Both the H5-index and H5-median are available in Google Scholar Metrics. Journals can be browsed by discipline (more information about disciplines is available in Journal Rankings) or searched by keyword.