Journals and weights

Decide how much a journal’s citations count, then see how the rankings change.

How should citations be weighted?

Journal formula

Ready to use when you select Formula.

A
Median citations of publishing academics
B
Mean citations per publication
N
Number of publications
P
Number of publishing academics

Inputs become percentile ranks from 0 to 1 within this field, then the equation determines weights. A uses academics’ whole-profile citation totals; B uses publication citation counts. All years and visible departments contribute.

Using the institution default

Rankings use the saved weights. Changes stay in this draft until you save.

Journal ranking

554 journals · 30 per page

Compare formula, manual, and applied weights. A weight of 2× doubles a citation’s score. Sort any column across all journals.

1–30 of 554 Saved weights

All journals are tied at weight 1×. Search keeps each journal’s rank across the whole field.

Journal rankings and citation weights. Sort any column across all matching journals; 30 journals appear on each page. A dash means no data is available.
1 NOVEL A Forum on Fiction 32 publications without citation data
Formula evidence
Formula score
0.5929
Formula score rank
18
Author median citations (A)
244 · percentile 26.1%
Citations per work (B)
13.17 · percentile 43.5%
Works / authors
80 / 30
 80 632 1.879× 1× 632
1 PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 13 publications without citation data
Formula evidence
Formula score
0.9775
Formula score rank
7
Author median citations (A)
751.5 · percentile 65.2%
Citations per work (B)
23.70 · percentile 60.9%
Works / authors
70 / 34
 70 1,351 2.493× 1× 1,351
1 London review of books 58 publications without citation data
Formula evidence
Formula score
0.7137
Formula score rank
15
Author median citations (A)
1,530 · percentile 95.7%
Citations per work (B)
0.50 · percentile 4.4%
Works / authors
66 / 6
 66 4 2.071× 1× 4
1 Victorian Studies 21 publications without citation data
Formula evidence
Formula score
0.5270
Formula score rank
20
Author median citations (A)
435 · percentile 39.1%
Citations per work (B)
7.07 · percentile 21.7%
Works / authors
66 / 19
 66 318 1.773× 1× 318
1 boundary 2 10 publications without citation data
Formula evidence
Formula score
0.5032
Formula score rank
21
Author median citations (A)
163 · percentile 8.7%
Citations per work (B)
19.11 · percentile 52.2%
Works / authors
47 / 12
 47 707 1.735× 1× 707
1 American Literary History 12 publications without citation data
Formula evidence
Formula score
0.4260
Formula score rank
22
Author median citations (A)
217 · percentile 17.4%
Citations per work (B)
10.06 · percentile 30.4%
Works / authors
43 / 27
 43 312 1.612× 1× 312
1 Modern Philology 8 publications without citation data
Formula evidence
Formula score
0.5314
Formula score rank
19
Author median citations (A)
591 · percentile 56.5%
Citations per work (B)
0.97 · percentile 8.7%
Works / authors
42 / 26
 42 33 1.780× 1× 33
1 Critical Inquiry 8 publications without citation data
Formula evidence
Formula score
1.2953
Formula score rank
1
Author median citations (A)
1,924 · percentile 100.0%
Citations per work (B)
36.06 · percentile 82.6%
Works / authors
40 / 18
 40 1,154 3× 1× 1,154
1 American Literature 11 publications without citation data
Formula evidence
Formula score
0.6247
Formula score rank
16
Author median citations (A)
191.5 · percentile 13.0%
Citations per work (B)
25.56 · percentile 65.2%
Works / authors
38 / 19
 38 690 1.929× 1× 690
1 Modern Language Quarterly 6 publications without citation data
Formula evidence
Formula score
0.7818
Formula score rank
12
Author median citations (A)
484 · percentile 47.8%
Citations per work (B)
14.06 · percentile 47.8%
Works / authors
37 / 22
 37 436 2.180× 1× 436
1 ELH
Formula evidence
Formula score
0.5959
Formula score rank
17
Author median citations (A)
350 · percentile 30.4%
Citations per work (B)
12.82 · percentile 39.1%
Works / authors
33 / 23
 33 423 1.883× 1× 423
1 Callaloo 11 publications without citation data
Formula evidence
Formula score
0.1603
Formula score rank
23
Author median citations (A)
135 · percentile 0.0%
Citations per work (B)
5.10 · percentile 17.4%
Works / authors
31 / 10
 31 102 1.188× 1× 102
1 Research in African Literatures 7 publications without citation data
Formula evidence
Formula score
0.9471
Formula score rank
8
Author median citations (A)
1,455 · percentile 91.3%
Citations per work (B)
12.77 · percentile 34.8%
Works / authors
29 / 8
 29 281 2.444× 1× 281
1 differences 3 publications without citation data
Formula evidence
Formula score
0.7465
Formula score rank
14
Author median citations (A)
423 · percentile 34.8%
Citations per work (B)
23.04 · percentile 56.5%
Works / authors
28 / 14
 28 576 2.124× 1× 576
1 Medical Entomology and Zoology 2 publications without citation data
Formula evidence
Formula score
1.2492
Formula score rank
2
Author median citations (A)
801 · percentile 78.3%
Citations per work (B)
109.38 · percentile 95.7%
Works / authors
26 / 20
 26 2,625 2.926× 1× 2,625
1 Representations 6 publications without citation data
Formula evidence
Formula score
1.2465
Formula score rank
3
Author median citations (A)
800 · percentile 73.9%
Citations per work (B)
148.60 · percentile 100.0%
Works / authors
26 / 17
 26 2,972 2.922× 1× 2,972
1 James Joyce quarterly 3 publications without citation data
Formula evidence
Formula score
0.7483
Formula score rank
13
Author median citations (A)
1,379 · percentile 87.0%
Citations per work (B)
3.91 · percentile 13.0%
Works / authors
25 / 5
 25 86 2.127× 1× 86
1 Modernism/modernity 9 publications without citation data
Formula evidence
Formula score
0.8224
Formula score rank
11
Author median citations (A)
232 · percentile 21.7%
Citations per work (B)
36.63 · percentile 87.0%
Works / authors
25 / 16
 25 586 2.245× 1× 586
1 Speculum 5 publications without citation data
Formula evidence
Formula score
0.0426
Formula score rank
24
Author median citations (A)
143 · percentile 4.4%
Citations per work (B)
0.05 · percentile 0.0%
Works / authors
25 / 5
 25 1 1× 1× 1
1 Social Text 2 publications without citation data
Formula evidence
Formula score
1.0035
Formula score rank
6
Author median citations (A)
732 · percentile 60.9%
Citations per work (B)
32.48 · percentile 69.6%
Works / authors
23 / 10
 23 682 2.534× 1× 682
1 Modern fiction studies 5 publications without citation data
Formula evidence
Formula score
1.1062
Formula score rank
4
Author median citations (A)
786 · percentile 69.6%
Citations per work (B)
35.75 · percentile 78.3%
Works / authors
21 / 16
 21 572 2.698× 1× 572
1 New Literary History 4 publications without citation data
Formula evidence
Formula score
1.0685
Formula score rank
5
Author median citations (A)
587.5 · percentile 52.2%
Citations per work (B)
45.18 · percentile 91.3%
Works / authors
21 / 17
 21 768 2.638× 1× 768
1 Interventions 9 publications without citation data
Formula evidence
Formula score
0.8340
Formula score rank
10
Author median citations (A)
1,323.5 · percentile 82.6%
Citations per work (B)
8.91 · percentile 26.1%
Works / authors
20 / 12
 20 98 2.264× 1× 98
1 South Atlantic Quarterly 3 publications without citation data
Formula evidence
Formula score
0.9144
Formula score rank
9
Author median citations (A)
449 · percentile 43.5%
Citations per work (B)
33.12 · percentile 73.9%
Works / authors
20 / 12
 20 563 2.392× 1× 563
1 Contemporary Literature 3 publications without citation data
Formula evidence
Formula score
Not available
Formula score rank
Not ranked
Author median citations (A)
771.5
Citations per work (B)
9
Works / authors
19 / 14
Evidence threshold
Fewer than 20 works; formula weight is 1×.
 19 144 1× 1× 144
1 Early American literature 4 publications without citation data
Formula evidence
Formula score
Not available
Formula score rank
Not ranked
Author median citations (A)
429
Citations per work (B)
7
Works / authors
19 / 4
Evidence threshold
Fewer than 20 works; formula weight is 1×.
 19 105 1× 1× 105
1 diacritics 3 publications without citation data
Formula evidence
Formula score
Not available
Formula score rank
Not ranked
Author median citations (A)
1,711
Citations per work (B)
22
Works / authors
18 / 7
Evidence threshold
Fewer than 20 works; formula weight is 1×.
 18 330 1× 1× 330
1 Nineteenth-Century Literature 4 publications without citation data
Formula evidence
Formula score
Not available
Formula score rank
Not ranked
Author median citations (A)
800
Citations per work (B)
9.21
Works / authors
18 / 12
Evidence threshold
Fewer than 20 works; formula weight is 1×.
 18 129 1× 1× 129
1 The Yale Review 14 publications without citation data
Formula evidence
Formula score
Not available
Formula score rank
Not ranked
Author median citations (A)
1,711
Citations per work (B)
0
Works / authors
18 / 6
Evidence threshold
Fewer than 20 works; formula weight is 1×.
 18 0 1× 1× 0
1 African Studies Review 10 publications without citation data
Formula evidence
Formula score
Not available
Formula score rank
Not ranked
Author median citations (A)
740
Citations per work (B)
2.14
Works / authors
17 / 1
Evidence threshold
Fewer than 20 works; formula weight is 1×.
 17 15 1× 1× 15
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Weighted citations = available citation counts × applied weight. A dash means no citation data; partial totals use the counts available.

Impact on department rankings

All journals currently use 1×. Choose Manual or Formula above to see how weighting changes department totals and ranks. Tied citation totals share a rank.

Department citation totals and ranks before and after weighting. All columns can be sorted.
DepartmentUnweighted citationsWeighted citationsCitation changeUnweighted rankWeighted rank
Cornell EnglishScholar for 149 publications, OpenAlex for 192, 787 with no count 36,518 36,518 0 1 1
Columbia EnglishScholar for 354 publications, OpenAlex for 147, 398 with no count 23,844 23,844 0 2 2
Princeton EnglishScholar for 148 publications, OpenAlex for 114, 130 with no count 23,106 23,106 0 3 3
Yale EnglishScholar for 146 publications, OpenAlex for 463, 655 with no count 13,294 13,294 0 4 4
Brown EnglishScholar for 95 publications, OpenAlex for 397, 421 with no count 11,323 11,323 0 5 5
Penn EnglishScholar for 170 publications, OpenAlex for 146, 264 with no count 7,572 7,572 0 6 6
Harvard EnglishScholar for 100 publications, OpenAlex for 111, 245 with no count 5,678 5,678 0 7 7
Dartmouth EnglishScholar for 77 publications, OpenAlex for 85, 253 with no count 4,816 4,816 0 8 8

Citation counts use Google Scholar where available, with OpenAlex as the fallback for CV-backed publications. Totals include available counts; a dash means no citation data.

Coverage and saved defaults

These rankings use all publication years, all academic ranks, and every visible department in the chosen field. Publications require CV or verified Google Scholar support. Citation counts prefer Scholar, with OpenAlex as the fallback for CV-supported works.

Missing citation counts stay unknown. Publications without a journal record use weight 1. The journal formula uses the same field-wide evidence whenever you select it in Department, Faculty, or Career analytics.

Saving changes your own version. Switching between All 1, Manual, and Formula keeps the other settings for later.