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This data was taken from https://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php

Usage

data(scimago)

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 32193 rows and 29 columns.

Source

SCImago Journal & Country Rank. Retrieved from https://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php

Value

A tibble with 32193 rows and 29 variables:

year

Year of SCImago Journal Ranking calculation.

rank

Rank of the journal among all journals.

sourceid

Database ID of the journal.

title

Jounal's title.

type

Type: "journal", "book series", "trade journal", or "conference and proceedings"

issn

ISSN journal identifier.

sjr

SCImago Journal Rank indicator. It expresses the average number of weighted citations received in the selected year by the documents published in the selected journal in the three previous years, –i.e. weighted citations received in year X to documents published in the journal in years X-1, X-2 and X-3. See detailed description of SJR (PDF).

sjr_best_quartile

Highest quartile of the journal among all categories it belongs to.

h_index

Hirsch index of the journal. The h index expresses the journal's number of articles (h) that have received at least h citations. It quantifies both journal scientific productivity and scientific impact and it is also applicable to scientists, countries, etc. (see H-index wikipedia definition).

total_docs_year

Total number of published documents within a specific year. All types of documents are considered, including citable and non citable documents.

total_docs_3years

Published documents in the three previous years (selected year documents are excluded), i.e.when the year X is selected, then X-1, X-2 and X-3 published documents are retrieved. All types of documents are considered, including citable and non citable documents.

total_refs

Total number of citations received by a journal to the documents published within a specific year.

total_cites_3years

Number of citations received in the seleted year by a journal to the documents published in the three previous years, –i.e. citations received in year X to documents published in years X-1, X-2 and X-3. All types of documents are considered.

citable_docs_3years

Number of citable documents published by a journal in the three previous years (selected year documents are excluded). Exclusively articles, reviews and conference papers are considered..

cites_doc_2years

Average citations per document in a 2 year period. It is computed considering the number of citations received by a journal in the current year to the documents published in the two previous years, –i.e. citations received in year X to documents published in years X-1 and X-2. Comparable to Journal Impact Factor.

ref_doc

Average number of references per document in the selected year..

country

Country of the publisher.

publisher

Publisher of the journal.

categories

Categories the jounal belongs to.

highest_category

Category in which the journal ranks highest by percentile.

highest_rank

Rank of journal in highest_category.

highest_percentile

Highest percentile of journal in any category.

Author

Rob Hyndman