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
✔️ 30,000+ 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 15,000+ known predatory and low-quality publishers
✔️ 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): 34,000+ journals from the Scopus® database (Elsevier B.V.), updated 2024
• 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: 2024 release. ABS: AJG 2024. ABDC: 2025 release (March 2026). 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
- 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.
- Fahad Ali
- Its great. Can I see ABDC rank as well?
- Manu Burkart
- Almost no more journal rankings after the update and the design is worse, not better. I preferred the old version.
- Safwan Al-Selwi (Saf1)
- "Journal of Advanced Research in Applied Sciences and Engineering Technology" is a Q2 journal index by Scopus. Currently your extension shows it as N/A.
- Osarodion Ogiemwonyi
- "I have noticed that some of my papers in Google Scholar published in "Environmental Technology & Innovation" and "Environmental & Sustainability Indicators" are not showing up in ExCITATION, even though these papers are indexed in Scopus, WoS, and Scimago Journal Ranking (SJR). This is surprising and I am wondering why they are being missed by ExCITATION." https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=j0M-_0sAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
- Kaela Griswold
- I've been using ExCITATION for nearly 7 months and as a Masters student, I have found it extremely useful when approaching any paper or project requiring research in google scholar.
- Mauro Sebastián Innocente
- I have papers in my Google Scholar Profile published in "Applied Soft Computing" (Elsevier) and in "Vehicles" (MDPI), which are plainly missed by ExCITATION. This is surprising because they are indexed in Scopus, WoS, and Scimago Journal Ranking (SJR). https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=MliO638AAAAJ&imq=Mauro+Sebasti%C3%A1n+Innocente
- Dr. Nilanjan Ray
- Global Journal of Business Research is a renowned Journal kindly but it is showing N/A kindly update . https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dyjo1LsAAAAJ&hl=en
- Supin Tapaneyasas
- Such a great tool - all our students need to know more about Excitation and its benefits. Thank you!
- Vinay Arya
- There should be a suggestion portal where we can put any journal that is declared as N/A by the extension. Journals like The Journal of Chemical Physics, running over 80-90 years must be included in the database.
- thomas Lange
- Useful but not up-to-date. E.g. the journal Evidence-based HRM is in Scimago and is currently Q2.
- Ishanka Weerasekara
- Very useful. But need some accuracy. eg: Same journal, 98 volume has Q1 rank, 99 volume is NA (Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation). Plos One is Q1? but still appears as a NA?