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About the ORBIT Ranking
This tool provides access to the Objective Ranking through Bias-reduced Integrated Tiers (ORBIT), a comprehensive system designed to offer a stable and holistic view of academic journal quality.
ORBIT synthesizes the expert opinions of major international ranking systems to produce a single consensus grade and an "uncertainty score" that measures the level of agreement among the sources.
To find a journal, you can search by its name, ISSN, or browse by All Science Journal Classification Codes (ASJC) in the search filters. Our goal is to provide a robust, transparent, and easy-to-use guide for scholars, researchers, and academic institutions.
Grade Distribution and Meaning
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Source Rankings
ORBIT only includes journals which are ranked by at least two of our used rankings/lists. We currently use the following expert-based rankings/lists:
We also use Scopus to obtain non-ranking data such as publisher and open-access status.
Conference Ranking
ORBIT provides a structured and reliability-aware ranking of academic conferences by integrating evidence from three expert-driven systems: CORE, JUFO, and the Norwegian Register. Each system's discrete tiers are first mapped to a common 0-100 scale using percentile-based midpoints, after which an ORBIT score is computed as a reliability-weighted average over the systems available for a given conference, requiring at least two systems.
Final letter grades (D through A+) are assigned using fixed score thresholds, with an explicit Elite override that labels designated top venues as A+ regardless of the numeric score. Alongside the grade, ORBIT reports an uncertainty measure that reflects cross-system agreement: uncertainty is lower when systems concur and place a conference near the top tiers, and higher when signals diverge or coverage is sparse.
Source Rankings
ORBIT only includes conferences which are ranked by at least two of our used rankings/lists. We currently use the following expert-based rankings/lists:
Publisher Ranking
ORBIT provides a conservative, transparent ranking of academic publishers based on the overlap of two independent expert systems: JUFO and the Norwegian Register. While percentile-based 0-100 scores are computed for reporting, the final letter grade is determined only by the pair of JUFO level and Norwegian level, using a fixed rubric that is fully auditable.
The top grade A+ is assigned only when JUFO = 3 and Norwegian = 2, making grade inflation unlikely and keeping top tiers intentionally selective. Grades are issued only when both systems are present; missing values are treated as lack of evidence rather than low quality. A companion reliability indicator is reported as the cross-system disagreement, where larger disagreement implies lower confidence in the assigned grade.
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