ExCITATION – Journal Ranking & Impact Factor for Google Scholar™

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• May 5, 2026
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  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

  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

• Apr 16, 2026
  description

  The ExCITATION extension is a tool for academics, scientists, PhD students, and researchers overall to speed up their literature search in Google Scholar database. 
  
  1) Journal rankings are based on publicly available data from:
  
  • SCImago, (n.d.). SJR — SCImago Journal & Country Rank [Portal]. Retrieved May 11, 2025, from http://www.scimagojr.com
  • Academic Journal Guide (AJG 2024), Chartered Association of Business Schools, https://charteredabs.org/
  • ABDC Journal Quality List (JQL 2022), Australian Business Deans Council, https://abdc.edu.au/
  
  ExCITATION is an independent tool and is not affiliated with or endorsed by these organizations.
  
  SCImago Journal & Country Rank includes 34000+ journals in various disciplines from the Scopus® database (Elsevier B.V.)
  
  - color-coded quarters: from Q1 top 25%, to Q4 bottom 25%
  
  - Journal Rank indicator. It is a measure of journal's impact, influence or prestige. It expresses the average number of weighted citations received in the selected year by the documents published in the journal in the three previous years
  
  - publisher/journal’s country
  
  2) Sorting
  
  - Sort by SJR journal impact factor
  - Sort by most cited
  
  Currently it sorts by citation number only within one page of search results. 
  
  3) One-click paper abstract preview
  
  Support us to develop further features, e.g., other journal rankings, predatory journal warnings, CSV export, sorting within more pages and much more.
  
  
  DATA ACCESS PERMISSIONS:
  
  Why does this extension request access to all sites?
  To support the abstract preview feature, the extension fetches article metadata from external websites when you click the preview icon—these can be hosted on any domain. We also query api.crossref.org to retrieve missing journal information.
  
  If you prefer, you can limit access to just:
  https://scholar.google.com/*
  https://api.crossref.org/*
  
  The extension will still work, but without abstract previews feature.

  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

• Apr 16, 2026
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  Find quality sources in a shorter time (journal ranking), identify leading studies (sort by citation), and preview abstracts

  Show SJR, ABS & ABDC journal rankings in Google Scholar. Sort by citations, detect predatory journals & preview abstracts — free.

• Apr 16, 2026
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  ExCITATION journal ranking in Google Scholar™

  ExCITATION – Journal Ranking & Impact Factor for Google Scholar™

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