First of all, top journals refer to journals with high influence and popularity in a certain discipline. These journals are usually selected by some authoritative institutions or expert institutions, and their selection criteria include journal impact factors, citation times, review speed, editing quality and so on. Top journals are generally regarded as the top journals in this field, and the articles published in these journals have high academic value and influence.
SCI periodicals refer to the periodicals included in SCI database. SCI is an international academic document retrieval tool, which evaluates the importance and influence of papers by counting the citation relationship between papers. The criteria for SCI to include periodicals mainly include periodical quality, academic level, editing management, etc. Therefore, SCI journals are generally considered as journals with certain academic level and influence.
Although both top journals and SCI journals are important indicators for evaluating academic journals, there are still some differences between them. First of all, top journals are usually selected by authoritative organizations or expert organizations, while SCI journals evaluate their importance and influence by counting the citation relationships between papers. Secondly, the evaluation criteria of top journals are more comprehensive, including impact factors, cited times, review speed, editing quality and so on. The evaluation criteria of SCI journals mainly focus on the quality and academic level of journals. Finally, top journals are generally regarded as the top journals in this field, and the articles published in these journals have high academic value and influence. SCI journals reflect the overall level and development trend of this field.