Rating of Scientific Journals

Classification of “Scientific” and “Class A” journals

The rating of scientific journals is carried out by ANVUR for the purpose of calculating the indicators used for the National Scientific Habilitation, starting from 2012, and for the purpose of accreditation of PhD programmes (requirement A4.3), starting from the 32^th cycle (academic year 2017-18).

The relevant legislation introduced journal ratings only for the scientific fields identified as “not bibliometric” (that is, where citation analysis is not appropriate), namely:

• Architecture (Area 08)
• Antiquities, philology, literary studies, art history (Area 10)
• History, philosophy and pedagogy (Area 11)
• Law (Area 12)
• Economics and Statistics (Area 13)
• Political and social sciences (Area 14)

For the remaining scientific fields no journal rating is provided by ANVUR.