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Local metrics (Journal ratings)Local metrics (Journal ratings)
In case your institution has local metrics, or custom journal ratings, they can be uploaded to the Journal content type. This article highlights how to do this, and where the metrics are available.
Uploading metrics
Ratings are added as yearly ratings.
Steps to upload ratings:
- Navigating to Administrator > Citations and Impact factors > Journal ratings
- Select the "type" of ratings to add. If the type you are looking for is not in the drop-down, then
- navigate to Masterdata > Classification scheme.
- Locate the scheme "Rating sources"
- Add a new classification to the scheme (Learn more about Classification schemes)
- save the editor
- Select the year of the rating (only one year at the time can be added)
- Select the data format of the rating you are entering (Text, Number, Integer)
- Upload the file and run the job.
Spreadsheet options
Column description for the uploaded file:
| Column | Description | Mandatory |
|---|---|---|
| ISSN | ISSN that the journal should be matched to | No |
| Title | Used if title matches should be used for the finding the journal | No |
| UUID | Used if the Pure UUID should be used for finding the journal | No |
| ID | Used if the journal was imported using a synchronisation then the synchronised ID | No |
| Rating | The value that should be used | Yes |
There is an example file available for download at the setting.
Matching journals
The job is using the following priority to locate the journal, but it will not try two options for the same row in the spreadsheet.
ID > ISSN > Title > UUID
Example 1: If a column have both an ISSN and Title, the ISSN will be used and if no journal is found, it will not try to find a journal with the Title if present in the spreadsheet.
Example 2: If two rows appear with the same title, it will update both of them with both values.
Available in Pure
The local ratings (Journals) 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) like other journal metrics, as illustrated here:
Pure portal
Local ratings (Journals) are not available in Pure portal
Available in reporting:
Local ratings are available for reporting.
Published at September 04, 2025