Before Google Scholar and Scopus there was, and still is, the Web of Science citation databases.
Interdisciplinary - covering the established and ranked peer reviewed journals in all disciplines and linking to cited references.
JCR journal rankings derive from Web of Science content.
lists of highly ranked business journals:
Financial Times 50 (FT 50)
50 academic and practitioner journals used by the Financial Times (London) to rank faculty research in MBA, EMBA, and online MBA programs.
ABDC Journal Quality List
ranked A*, A, B, C etc. (Australian Business Deans Council)
Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
quick way to check if 'peer reviewed' or not
Known as JCR, this database provides critical evaluation of Social Sciences journals based on citation data, or how often an article is referenced by researchers. JCR is part of the Web of Knowledge/Social Science Citation Index databases.
By sorting by Journal Impact Factor (JIF) using Journal Citation Reports (JCR) you can see which journals in a discipline are making the greatest contribution to the publishing history of an idea via citation frequencies.
Here is an example of just a fraction of the content displayed for one of the top rated journals included in JCR.
