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Scopus Journal Analyzer

Scopus Journal Analyzer is a feature that allows a comparison of the performance of selected journals.  The journals can be compared by looking at a variety of parameters. Up to 10 journals can be selected, from 1996 onwards, and the data is updated every 2 months. Over 18,000 peer reviewed journals from 5,000 publishers are indexed in Scopus.

Scopus is available from the Library's Databases page

Using the Journal Analyzer tool in Scopus

  • select Analytics
  • enter the name of a journal in the search box, eg. Research in higher education
  • specify the journal subject area to restrict your search (optional)
  • select Search to retrieve a list of journal titles
  • select the title of the journal you want to analyse
  • double click on the title or drag the title across to the right hand side of the screen
  • add more titles if you want to compare journals. You can add up to 10 journals

Results

The Citations chart shows the number of times documents from the journals were cited in other documents during a specific year

The Documents chart shows the number of documents published in the journals during a specific year

The % Not Cited is the percentage of articles published in that year that have never been cited to date

Other metrics used by Scopus include SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP). For more information, in the Scopus database see Scopus calculations help link.

  • select Table to look at this information in a table format

  • the titles of the journals which appear in the chart are listed in the key below the chart

  • select Show Info to display the journal publication information 

  • select Hide info to collapse journal publication information 

  • select Exclude journal self-citations to remove self-citations for a journal from the table. Click Include journal self-citations to add them 

  • select X to remove a journal from the chart

SCImago Journal & Country Rank is powered by Scopus and provides journal rank in category information  and quartile performance.

Further information:

 - a short video which explains how SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) are calculated.

Help  (Select Contents from the left hand side menu, then Journal analyzer)

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