SCImago Journal Rank
E408203
SCImago Journal Rank is a scientometric indicator that measures the influence and prestige of academic journals by accounting for both the number of citations received and the importance of the citing sources.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| SCImago Journal Rank canonical | 6 |
| SCImago Journal Rank index | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4021208 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: SCImago Journal Rank Context triple: [SNIP, relatedTo, SCImago Journal Rank]
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A.
SciVal
SciVal is an Elsevier analytics platform that provides research performance metrics and benchmarking tools for institutions, researchers, and policymakers.
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B.
CiteScore
CiteScore is a journal-level metric from Elsevier’s Scopus database that measures average citations received per document published in a title over a four-year period.
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C.
CWTS Leiden
CWTS Leiden is a research center at Leiden University specializing in quantitative studies of science, technology, and innovation, best known for producing the global Leiden Ranking of universities.
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D.
Web of Science
Web of Science is a major multidisciplinary citation indexing and abstracting database widely used for academic research and bibliometric analysis.
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E.
Science Citation Index
The Science Citation Index is a multidisciplinary citation database that tracks and indexes scientific journal articles to measure research impact and facilitate literature discovery.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: SCImago Journal Rank Target entity description: SCImago Journal Rank is a scientometric indicator that measures the influence and prestige of academic journals by accounting for both the number of citations received and the importance of the citing sources.
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A.
SciVal
SciVal is an Elsevier analytics platform that provides research performance metrics and benchmarking tools for institutions, researchers, and policymakers.
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B.
CiteScore
CiteScore is a journal-level metric from Elsevier’s Scopus database that measures average citations received per document published in a title over a four-year period.
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C.
CWTS Leiden
CWTS Leiden is a research center at Leiden University specializing in quantitative studies of science, technology, and innovation, best known for producing the global Leiden Ranking of universities.
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D.
Web of Science
Web of Science is a major multidisciplinary citation indexing and abstracting database widely used for academic research and bibliometric analysis.
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E.
Science Citation Index
The Science Citation Index is a multidisciplinary citation database that tracks and indexes scientific journal articles to measure research impact and facilitate literature discovery.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
journal ranking metric
ⓘ
scientometric indicator ⓘ |
| abbreviation | SJR ⓘ |
| accessibleAs | free online resource ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
account for quality of citations
ⓘ
reflect scientific influence of journals ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
academic journals
ⓘ
scholarly journals ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
SCImago Research Group
ⓘ
surface form:
SCImago Journal & Country Rank portal
|
| basedOn |
citations received by a journal
ⓘ
importance of citing sources ⓘ |
| calculatedFrom |
Scopus
ⓘ
surface form:
Scopus citation network
|
| category | journal evaluation tool ⓘ |
| considers |
number of citations received
ⓘ
prestige of citing journals ⓘ |
| dataSourceOwner | Elsevier ⓘ |
| developedBy | SCImago Research Group ⓘ |
| field |
bibliometrics
ⓘ
scientometrics ⓘ |
| granularity | journal level ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
citation weighting algorithm
ⓘ
field normalization procedure ⓘ |
| hostedOn | SCImago website ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| measures |
influence of academic journals
ⓘ
prestige of academic journals ⓘ |
| normalizes | differences between subject areas ⓘ |
| outputFormat | numerical score ⓘ |
| provides |
discipline-specific rankings
ⓘ
quartile rankings (Q1–Q4) ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Eigenfactor Score
ⓘ
surface form:
Eigenfactor score
H-index ⓘ Journal Impact Factor ⓘ |
| scope | international journals ⓘ |
| timeWindow | three-year citation window ⓘ |
| typeOf | size-independent journal metric ⓘ |
| usedBy |
librarians
ⓘ
research managers ⓘ researchers ⓘ university administrators ⓘ |
| usedFor |
comparing journals within a field
ⓘ
evaluating journal quality ⓘ journal ranking ⓘ |
| uses | citation data from Scopus ⓘ |
| weightedBy |
citation prestige transfer
ⓘ
subject field normalization ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: SCImago Journal Rank Description of subject: SCImago Journal Rank is a scientometric indicator that measures the influence and prestige of academic journals by accounting for both the number of citations received and the importance of the citing sources.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
SCImago Journal Rank index