Environmental Studies

There is no one-stop shopping when compiling a list of citations to your works because all resources use different criteria and collections of journals to search.

You can search for your article in Google Scholar, which will almost always list a much higher number of references. This is because Google Scholar scoops up citations from things like conference papers, book chapters, white papers, powerpoint presentations, or other things not counted by traditional journal citation indexes.

Web of Science. Don't be fooled by the name...Rollins subscribes to the Social Science component, so Business journals are included. This is probably the most highly respected means of gathering citations, but it has its limitations due to the highly selective nature of the journals it indexes. This is especially true in the Social Sciences:

Predatory publishers:

• Take advantage of scholars who want to publish in open access journals
• Exist only to charge the article processing fee required by some Open Access journals
• Often invite scholars to publish, but make no initial mention of an author fee

A number of open access journals require a fee, and this is not automatically a sign of a predatory publisher. Here are a few tools to help you assess a journal's quality. You can also contact your librarian if you are in doubt.