Is SCImago a Scopus?

Is SCImago a Scopus?

Scopus is an abstracting and citation database owned by Elsevier, an international publication group. SCImago Journal Rank is one among the four types of quality measures Scopus provides for each journal title (others are h-Index, CiteScore, and SNIP).

How do you search in SCImago?

To view the ranking of a specific journal:

1. After connecting to SJR (SCImago Journal Rank), enter the journal title in the search box.
2. Click on the search icon.
3. In the results list, click on the title’s link – this will lead to a wide range of data about that journal.

Is SCImago reliable?

SCImago uses Scopus as a source database, which is more comprehensive than WoS. Google Scholar is the largest of the three citation databases. Between JIF and SCImago (Scopus), JIF is more credible. Publishers are now printing JIF scores as indicators of the quality of their journals. .

What is a good SJR rank?

The scoring scale brings everything down to 1 for easy comparison. So a journal with a SJR value >1 has above average citation potential and journal with a SJR value <1.

What does SJR stand for?

SCImago Journal Rank
The SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) indicator is a measure of the scientific influence of scholarly journals that accounts for both the number of citations received by a journal and the importance or prestige of the journals where the citations come from.

What is SJR website?

SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) is a portal that includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus database (Elsevier).

What does SCImago stand for?

The SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) indicator is a measure of the scientific influence of scholarly journals that accounts for both the number of citations received by a journal and the importance or prestige of the journals where the citations come from.

What is SCImago database?

The SCImago Journal & Country Rank is a publicly available portal that includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus® database (Elsevier B.V.). These indicators can be used to assess and analyze scientific domains.

How do you pronounce SCImago?

There’s a contact email in their About Us page. In the mean time, just choose whatever pronunciation you like, and tell your students you’re not sure what the right pronunciation is. Myself, I would say it’s “sci” like in science + “imago” with a hard g (like in “egg”) – and extend the i as though it’s doubled.

How do you read SJR?

A journal’s SJR is a numeric value indicating the average number of weighted citations received during a selected year per document published in that journal during the previous three years. Higher SJR values are meant to indicate greater journal prestige.

What is SJR Q1?

Q1 to Q4 refer to journal ranking quartiles within a subdiscipline using the SJR citation index. Thus, a first quartile journal (i.e., Q1) has an SJR in the top 25% of journals for at least one of its classified subdisciplines.

Is SJR a Scopus?

Further, SJR is calculated by SCImago Lab and developed from Scopus data.