Early-Stage Journal Rankings
Journals 12–59 months after their first regular scholarly publication, evaluated through AJR-E, the early-stage track of AJR (POSI Automated Rating). E-Q1–E-Q4 quartiles are assigned once a minimum same-category, same-cohort PSC (POSI Subject Classification) peer group exists — see AJR-SPEC.md § 1, § 5.
Lifecycle window: 12–59 months since first publication
Methodology: AJR-E (AJR 1.0 Lifecycle Framework)
Scoring: 100% rules-driven, from crawled site evidence and sampled Crossref articles
Manual score adjustment: Not permitted
E-Q assigned: 0 of 6 officially rated
Journals evaluated (real score): 8 of 30
Currently in Early-Stage window: 10 of 30
In window, not rateable: 2 — below the minimum evidence bar, see each journal's page for its specific reason
Global Benchmark, pending FPD verification: 550
Every Core Collection journal is listed here regardless of lifecycle stage or eligibility, so the full status distribution stays visible — journals in Observation Stage (0–11 months) or below the minimum evidence bar have no score yet, and that is expected. Global Benchmark rows (Collection: Benchmark, status "Pending FPD Verification") are the 2026-08 publisher-catalog expansion journals with no OpenAlex-visible evidence of publishing activity 5+ years ago — that rules out "mature," but is not proof the journal is actually 12–59 months old, so these rows are not displayed as genuinely evaluated Early-Stage journals: no first-publication-date has been resolved, no AJR-E score, no E-Q. Loaded client-side from a separate data file; full corpus — see Global Benchmark Collection.