Journal Ranking Dataset
A dataset of journal ranking based on Scimago, Web of Science, and Scopus.
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About this Dataset
Journal Ranking Dataset
Journals & Ranking
An academic journal or research journal is a periodical publication in which research articles relating to a particular academic discipline is published, according to Wikipedia. Currently, there are more than 25,000 peer-reviewed journals that are indexed in citation index databases such as Scopus and Web of Science. These indexes are ranked on the basis of various metrics such as CiteScore, H-index, etc. The metrics are calculated from yearly citation data of the journal. A lot of efforts are given to make a metric that reflects the journal's quality.
Journal Ranking Dataset
This is a comprehensive dataset on the academic journals coving their metadata information as well as citation, metrics, and ranking information. Detailed data on their subject area is also given in this dataset. The dataset is collected from the following indexing databases:
The data is collected by scraping and then it was cleaned, details of which can be found in HERE.
Key Features
- Rank: Overall rank of journal (derived from sorted SJR index).
- Title: Name or title of journal.
- OA: Open Access or not.
- Country: Country of origin.
- SJR-index: A citation index calculated by Scimago.
- CiteScore: A citation index calculated by Scopus.
- H-index: Hirsh index, the largest number h such that at least h articles in that journal were cited at least h times each.
- Best Quartile: Top Q-index or quartile a journal has in any subject area.
- Best Categories: Subject areas with top quartile.
- Best Subject Area: Highest ranking subject area.
- Best Subject Rank: Rank of the highest ranking subject area.
- Total Docs.: Total number of documents of the journal.
- Total Docs. 3y: Total number of documents in the past 3 years.
- Total Refs.: Total number of references of the journal.
- Total Cites 3y: Total number of citations in the past 3 years.
- Citable Docs. 3y: Total number of citable documents in the past 3 years.
- Cites/Doc. 2y: Total number of citations divided by the total number of documents in the past 2 years.
- Refs./Doc.: Total number of references divided by the total number of documents.
- Publisher: Name of the publisher company of the journal.
- Core Collection: Web of Science core collection name.
- Coverage: Starting year of coverage.
- Active: Active or inactive.
- In-Press: Articles in press or not.
- ISO Language Code: Three-letter ISO 639 code for language.
- ASJC Codes: All Science Journal Classification codes for the journal.
Rest of the features provide further details on the journal's subject area or category:
- Life Sciences: Top level subject area.
- Social Sciences: Top level subject area.
- Physical Sciences: Top level subject area.
- Health Sciences: Top level subject area.
- 1000 General: ASJC main category.
- 1100 Agricultural and Biological Sciences: ASJC main category.
- 1200 Arts and Humanities: ASJC main category.
- 1300 Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: ASJC main category.
- 1400 Business, Management and Accounting: ASJC main category.
- 1500 Chemical Engineering: ASJC main category.
- 1600 Chemistry: ASJC main category.
- 1700 Computer Science: ASJC main category.
- 1800 Decision Sciences: ASJC main category.
- 1900 Earth and Planetary Sciences: ASJC main category.
- 2000 Economics, Econometrics and Finance: ASJC main category.
- 2100 Energy: ASJC main category.
- 2200 Engineering: ASJC main category.
- 2300 Environmental Science: ASJC main category.
- 2400 Immunology and Microbiology: ASJC main category.
- 2500 Materials Science: ASJC main category.
- 2600 Mathematics: ASJC main category.
- 2700 Medicine: ASJC main category.
- 2800 Neuroscience: ASJC main category.
- 2900 Nursing: ASJC main category.
- 3000 Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: ASJC main category.
- 3100 Physics and Astronomy: ASJC main category.
- 3200 Psychology: ASJC main category.
- 3300 Social Sciences: ASJC main category.
- 3400 Veterinary: ASJC main category.
- 3500 Dentistry: ASJC main category.
- 3600 Health Professions: ASJC main category.