ExCITATION – Journal Ranking & Impact Factor for Google Scholar™
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Show SJR, ABS & ABDC journal rankings in Google Scholar. Sort by citations, detect predatory journals & preview abstracts — free.
Trusted by 100,000+ researchers, PhD students, and academics worldwide.
ExCITATION adds journal quality rankings directly to your Google Scholar search results so you can identify high-quality sources in seconds, not hours. Updated for 2025 with the latest SJR, ABS, and ABDC data.
💪 Core Features
👉 Journal Quality Rankings
✔️ Auto-display SJR quartile (Q1-Q4), impact score, and country of origin for every result
✔️ ABS Academic Journal Guide (AJG 2024) ratings, the standard for business & management research
✔️ ABDC Journal Quality List (2025) ratings: A*, A, B, C classifications
✔️ Color-coded badges for instant visual assessment of source quality
✔️ 32,000+ journals covered across all disciplines
👉 Sort by What Matters
✔️ Sort search results by SJR journal impact factor
✔️ Sort by citation count to surface the most influential studies
✔️ Works within your current Google Scholar page, no extra tabs or tools
👉 Predatory Journal Detection
✔️ Flags 1,400+ known predatory and low-quality journals
✔️ Visual warnings so you never accidentally cite a dubious source
✔️ Protects the integrity of your literature review
👉 Abstract Preview
✔️ One-click abstract preview without leaving the search results page
✔️ Pulls metadata directly from publisher pages
✔️ Saves time deciding which papers to read in full
👉 Author Page Insights
✔️ See journal quality distribution across any author's publications
✔️ Quickly assess a researcher's publication profile
📊 Data Sources (Transparent & Up-to-Date)
• SCImago Journal & Country Rank (SJR): 32,000+ journals from the Scopus® database (Elsevier B.V.), updated 2025
• ABS Academic Journal Guide (AJG 2024): Chartered Association of Business Schools
• ABDC Journal Quality List (JQL 2025): Australian Business Deans Council
ExCITATION is an independent tool and is not affiliated with or endorsed by these organizations.
🌟 How to Use
1️⃣ Install the extension. It's free, no account required.
2️⃣ Go to Google Scholar and search as you normally would.
3️⃣ Journal rankings, citation sorting, and predatory warnings appear automatically.
4️⃣ Click any abstract icon to preview a paper without leaving the page.
👤 Who Is It For?
• PhD & doctoral students building literature reviews
• Postdocs and faculty selecting journals for submission
• Research supervisors evaluating source quality
• Systematic review teams screening large result sets
• Anyone who uses Google Scholar and cares about journal quality
🛡 Permissions
All journal ranking data is bundled within the extension itself. The extension requests host permissions to support abstract previews (fetching article metadata from publisher sites) and CrossRef lookups.
❓ FAQ
📌 Which ranking systems are included?
SJR (all disciplines), ABS/AJG 2024 (business & management), and ABDC 2025 (business & management). Color-coded Q1-Q4 quartiles, impact scores, and country flags are displayed for each result.
📌 Is it free?
Yes, completely free. No registration, no account, no premium tier required for any feature.
📌 Does it work on all Google Scholar domains?
Yes! Supports 80+ regional Google Scholar domains (scholar.google.com, scholar.google.co.uk, scholar.google.de, etc.).
📌 How current is the data?
SJR: 2025 release. ABS: AJG 2024. ABDC: 2025 release. We update with each new official release.
📌 Does it work on PubMed or other sites?
Currently Google Scholar only. We're exploring additional platform support.
📪 Contact & Support
Questions, bugs, or feature requests? Reach us at [email protected]
Website: https://excitation.tech
Latest reviews
- Mohamed ELMOUHINNI
- BEST ONE FOR google scholar
- Abel Simeon
- Just test running how this platform works. So, I do not have anything to say
- George Peppas
- Great
- Praveen Kumar
- This is very useful tool to see my publication metrics. I shared it with my peers. please include AIAA SCITECH as conference as its missing from the current classification and shows as NA.
- Chun-Han Chang
- Can we get the JCR ranking version?
- Sadok Kouz
- the Journal of the Optical Society of America B shows as 'NA' although it is a very famous journal!
- Deniz Ertuncay
- Overall it works but but currently it breaks google chrome. You cannot see attached pdf files in Gmail and Google Calendar becomes a blank page.
- marie jane
- Hello, I noticed that the journal quartile displayed for my publications reflects the **current SJR ranking** rather than the ranking at the **time of publication**. For example, my article published in 2024 is now shown as Q3, whereas the journal was classified as **Q2 in 2024** (SJR: 0.355). The Q3 classification corresponds to the 2025 update (SJR: 0.321), which was released in May 2026. This creates a misleading picture of a researcher's publication record, since quartile rankings change every year and should be evaluated at the time of publication.
- Muhammad Wasif
- Excellenet
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- nice
- Dr. Ravi Kumar Mandava
- As I observed that many journals ranking are not following with SCImago Journal & Country Rank (SJR). Can we know on which data base the ranking is providing.
- Miss Akhmedova
- very convinient and time-saving program
- azd azd
- its great
- parisa astane
- As a master student, it was super helpful for me to do my master's thesis by the help of such a tool. Thanks for making such a tool.
- Fatemeh Mirmohammadkhani
- I am a novice researcher, and ExCitation helped me a lot check the credibility and ranking of journals. I really recommend it to students, especially those writing their Master’s dissertations, because I used it many times and found it very helpful.
- Dilan Aydın Uzun
- ExCitation is a very useful and user-friendly tool for academic research. It helped streamline the citation process and made managing references more efficient during my dissertation. I found it particularly helpful for saving time and ensuring consistency in referencing. A valuable free resource for the research community.
- Mohammad Soliman
- Add Scopus CiteScore Ranking
- Dr. Ahmed M. Hasanein
- SJR rancking is not accurate or up-todate you have to rely on Scopus rancking is updated monthly and more accurate.
- Dr Hamid Reza Nasriani
- not showing all SJR Qs for some Elsevier Journals like: Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering , Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering and also some MDPI journals like: Energies
- aswanth kumar
- This is an extremely helpful tool for researchers.
- Dr. Sasanko Sekhar Gantayat
- Sometimes, it shows wrong ranking in respect of SJR, ABS Ranking
- Dr. Sarmad Al-Anssari
- Very helpful
- Joy Dutta
- Very useful tool for researchers!
- Daniel Naskevic
- Please add the VHB rating: https://www.vhbonline.org/services/vhb-rating-2024/teilratings
- Safwan bin Sajjad
- Overall, it's helpful. Sometimes, it shows wrong ranking in respect of SJR, ABS Ranking
- Milena Nair
- ExCITATION is a very practical tool both for us students and researchers when writing an article or working on a dissertation. I found it very helpful and easy to use. Adding as an extension made it even more easier to use and it saved time. Thanks!
- Nasim Rahmani
- A clean, fast, and handy tool for researchers. Thanks to the developer for building something so useful.
- Gülden Birol
- Great, Useful..
- Pranav Shankar
- Quite a useful tool for students
- Laxmidhar Senapati
- instead of percentage write number. or both
- Aylin Saral
- very useful
- Sofiane Boudalia
- Very useful 👍🏾
- Guilherme D. Garcia
- This is a great extension for sure. It would be nice if QX percentages were only based on papers. In other words, for books, proceedings, and other types of publications that are not categorized in QXs, instead of NAs, they would simply not be counted. A true NA should be a paper in a journal (i.e., a type of publication that is subject to QXs) that is *not* classified at any Q. Otherwise, people with proceedings, software libraries, etc., end up with a lot of NAs. Take someone with 5 Q1 papers and 25 proceedings/books/libraries/others. This person would have ~15% Q1 publications, which may imply that 85% of their papers were published at minor journals, when in fact 100% of the person's articles were Q1.
- K. V V SIVA PRASAD
- this is excelenrt feature
- Luciano Floridi
- excellent
- Hugo Morão
- Great
- Linh Lido
- SJR 2024 has been released, please kindly update. Thank you so much for this helpful tool!
- Ahmed BABAADDOUN
- Very practical and interesting tool, where you can find what you look for easily with high pertinence
- Navid Nobani
- Incredibly good!
- manish kumar
- A very useful tool for academic research. Please add impact factor in this list.
- Tobiloba Akinfe
- Amazing tool and it's super easy to add as an extension
- Ahmadreza Karami
- This extension is super useful. There is room for improvement but as of now, it simplifies searching for research papers by a lot.
- Erdem Akagündüz
- Very useful. I wish it displayed "total author-normalized citations" for a Google Scholar page. Instead of simply summing the total citations, it would divide the citations for each paper by the number of authors before summing them. Hopefully, someone sees this.
- Prof. Basavaraj Kashappanavar
- It's a great tool, but it has disadvantages. If journals are continued with different names, the Quartile should remain the same, and NA should not be displayed. For example: Superlattices and Microstructures, Elsevier old name it is continued as Micro and Nanostructures, Elsevier as new name. If the journal is continued the Quartile remain same.
- Việt Dũng Phạm
- Great tool, but seems a little slow since it only checks each Google Scholar entry one by one. Is there any plan to support conferences based on ranking like CORE?
- Dimitris Petrakis
- Very simple to use and very useful too!
- Korina-Konstantina Drakaki
- A very useful tool for academic research, taking Google Scholar interface to a step further!
- Akhil PS
- Very useful
- Ahmad Aljarah
- ExCitation is a fantastic tool!
- Dr. Syed Naeem Ahmed
- ExCITATION is a fantastic resource for accessing quality material and journals, with regular updates. However, it's crucial to also incorporate patents. I've personally added my UK-registered patent design to my Google Scholar account, but it's currently showing as 'NA.' This personal experience underscores the need to include patents, which represent a significantly higher level of scholarly activity than publishing in a Q1 category journal.