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Publishing: Scopus journal metrics

Scopus metrics in SCImago

See also the following page on SCImago, a public portal which publishes the SCImago Journal Rank indicator based on Scopus data.

Scopus metrics

            

 

  • Search for publications by subject area, title, publisher or ISSN.

           

 

  • Choose your research area from the Subject area drop-down menu, for example to include only journals in the top 10% or 1st quartile (top 25%).

           

 

  • Use the limiters on the left-hand side to narrow down your search results.

           

 

  • Scopus Source metrics include CiteScore, CiteScore percentile, Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) and SCImago Journal Ranking (SJR).
  • Click on a publication title to see more detailed data, including CiteScore trend by year and CiteScore Tracker 2021 for the most recently updated data.
  • Use the Compare sources function to compare key metrics for up to 10 specified publications.

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CiteScore

CiteScore uses a simple formula for measuring the impact of sources:

 

  Citations to documents published in 4-year period         

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  Number of documents in the same 4-year period

 

  • CiteScore Percentile indicates the relative standing of a journal in its subject field.
  • Use the CiteScore highest quartile filter in Scopus' Sources search to include only publications in the top 10%, or the 1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th quartile.

 

CiteScore Tracker

While CiteScore is updated annually, you can access more recent metrics via CiteScore Tracker which is updated every month.

Find a journal's CiteScore tracker score by clicking on a journal title in the Sources results list.

 

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SCImago journal rank (SJR)

SCImago journal rank weights citations by the prestige of the citing journal:

 

  average number of weighted citations received in a year        

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         Number of published in the previous 3 years

 

 

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Source Normalised Impact per Paper (SNIP)

SNIP is contextualised by the subject field:

 

  Journal's citation count per paper         

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  Citation potential in its subject field

 

  • Citation potential is important because it accounts for the fact that typical citation counts vary widely between research disciplines and fields. 

 

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