Journal Rankings in Business & Economics

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Free Tools Based on Scopus Data

Scopus is an abstract and citation database of academic literature produced by Elsevier. It is a major competitor of Clarivate's Web of Science. UTSA does not offer a full subscription to Scopus, but Elsevier makes several tools freely available that are based on Scopus data.

Journal Metrics (Elservier)
A free journal assessment tool by Elsevier powered by Scopus data. Metrics include CiteScore. SNIP, SJR, % documents cited.
SCImago Journal & Country Rank
By SCImago, a research group from Spanish universities. A publicly available portal for assessing and analyzing journal and country ranks. Based on the Scopus citation data.

Scopus Metrics

Free Scopus Metrics for Journals and Author Influence
Please note that UTSA does not have a subscription to Scopus, but take advantage of the free tools made available by Elservier.
CiteScore Metrics
The CiteScore methodology was updated in 2022 and all previous CiteScores were recalculated. CiteScore 2022 counts the citations received in a 4 year- window (2019-2022) to articles, reviews, conference papers, book chapters and data papers published in 2019-2022, and divides this by the number of publications published in 2019-2022.
CiteScore FAQs
Learn about the CiteScore methodology.
SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
SJR is a measure of 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 such citations come from. Inspired by Google PageRank algorithm.
Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
SNIP measures contextual citation impact by weighting citations based on the total number of citations in a subject field. The impact of a single citation is given higher value in subject areas where citations are less likely, and vice versa. It is defined as the ratio of a journal's citation count per paper and the citation potential in its subject field. it is normalized to allow direct comparison of sources in different subject fields.
Journal H-Index (SCImago)
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.