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Journal level metrics from ScopusJournal level metrics from Scopus

Metrics available

Without subscription:

  • Number of publications
  • Total citations
  • Total citations (excluding self-cites)
  • Number of documents with zero citations
  • Percent of articles cited
  • CiteScore
  • SNIP
  • SJR
  • Category metrics
    • Journal rank,
    • Quartile,
    • Percentile

Updating metrics:

The metrics can be updated by using the job "Scopus: Update/Create Journals And Metrics" (Administration → Cron job → Scopus: Update/Create Journals And Metrics)

Journals are matched by ISSN number

Available in Pure:

The Scopus metrics are stored on the Journal editor.

The rating is shown in the short renderer of a journal (eg. for searching for a journal to add to a Research Output)

Pure portal:

Scopus journal ratings are not available in Pure portal

Available in reporting:

Scopus metrics are available for reporting

Title Description File (To be used →5.24) File (To be used 5.25+5.26) File (To be used 5.27→)
Citescore Listing CiteScore per journal per year CiteScore.json    
Citescore per year  Listing publications including CiteScore per year of related journal - using split functionality

Citescore per year.json

Citescore per year(525).json

Citescore per year(527).json

Current years publications incl. SJR and SNIP

Listing all publication from current year, the related Journal with SNIP and SJR 

(Note current year = 2021)

Current years publication incl. SJR and SNIP.json

Current years publications incl. SJR and SNIP(525).json

Current years publications incl. SJR and SNIP(527).json

Journal metric year equal publications year Listing all Research outputs and include the CiteScore, SNIP and SJR of the year of the earliest publication year (e-pub or publish year) of the publication.    

Journal metric year equal publications year (527).json

Further information

  • 5.19.0 Release notes: see 4.1.2. Citescore metrics on Journals
  • 5.9.0 Release notes: see 2.1. CiteScore
  • Knowledge base
    • Clean Scopus Journals Job
 

Published at December 05, 2024

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  3. Available in Pure:
  4. Pure portal:
  5. Available in reporting:
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