What can I do on a Source details page?

Title information

Title information always displays at the top of the page. If the source title has changed, the former title also displays beneath the main, current title. If an abbreviation for the current title is available, it is also provided.

Scopus coverage years

Indicates which years of the publication are available in Scopus.

Note that this may not be the complete collection available from a publisher, nor is it a commitment to continued coverage in Scopus. Scopus coverage years only covers the years in Scopus.

Coverage status

Indicates the type of subcription or the current coverage status in Scopus. A status indicating coverage discontinued in Scopus indicates three possible scenarios:

• Inactive - Scopus has received no records for a particular serial title from the publisher in last three years.
• Discontinued - The title no longer meets the expected standards. Scopus monitors and re-evaluates journals for outlier- or underperfomance and flags them for the Content Selection and Advisory Board (CSAB) to decide if coverage should continue.
• Stopped - If a serial changes title and ISSN, Scopus connects the new title to the old title and displays Formely known as: [...] . The coverage of the former title will then automatically be stopped.

Library Subscription

If available, displays the ongoing subscription availability dates for a source.

Publisher

The publisher of the source. There is only one publisher for a source.

ISSN or E-ISSN

The International Standard Serial Number or Electronic International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) assigned to the source. If available, both numbers appear.

Subject Area

Subject area in which the source is classified. If the source qualifies for more than one subject area, then each subject area the source is associated with appears here.

View all documents

Select 'View all documents' to open a list of all documents associated with the source.

Set document Alert

When viewing the Source details page, you can create an email alert to be notified when journal releases a new document:

1. Select 'Set document alert' to access the Set Alert function.
   You can edit the name of the search, target email address(es), the frequency of emails, email format, and set the status (active or inactive) of the alert.
2. Select 'Save'. A confirmation email is sent to the specified email address(es).

For more information, see How are Alerts used in Scopus?

Save to source list

Save to source list allows you to select and save a journal or book to a custom list.

Journal homepage

Select the journal to open the journal website.

Open Access

Indicates that the journal is an Open Access (OA) journal that is listed in either the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), or the Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources (ROAD).

See How do I find Open Access documents and journals in Scopus? for more information.

CiteScore

CiteScore is a simple and robust way of measuring the citation impact of peer-reviewed research in serial titles such as journals. Serial titles are defined as titles which publish on a regular basis (one or more volumes per year).

CiteScore calculates the average number of citations received in 4 calendar years to 5 peer-reviewed document types (research articles, review articles, conference proceedings, data papers, and book chapters) published in a journal in the same four years. The calendar years to which a serial title's issues are assigned is determined by their cover dates, and not the dates that the serial issues were made available online.

For more information about CiteScore see What is CiteScore?

SJR

SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) is a measure of the scientific prestige of scholarly sources. Subject field, quality, and reputation of the journal have a direct effect on the value of a citation. SJR also normalizes for differences in citation behavior between subject fields. For more information, see What is SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)?

SNIP

Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) measures the contextual citation impact of a source by weighting citations based on the total number of citations in a subject field. For more information, see What is Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)?

CiteScore year

Select to change the CiteScore year. The CiteScore citations and documents updates based on the selected year.

CiteScore Transparency

The CiteScore calculation provides transparency by listing citations and documents used to create the score.

• Select the Citations number to open a list of documents citing the target source which are used for calculating CiteScore.
• Select the Documents number to open a list of Source documents which are used for calculating CiteScore.

Each Citation and Source document list is available for exporting to a CSV file.

View CiteScore methodology

Select to view a brief explanation about CiteScore.

CiteScore FAQ

See What is CiteScore? to learn more about CiteScore.

What is CiteScore Tracker

CiteScore Tracker is calculated in the same way as CiteScore, but for the current year rather than previous, complete years.

The CiteScore Tracker calculation is updated every month, as a current indication of a title's performance.

The numerator (citation count) of the current year's metric, builds up every month as additional citations are received so that the construction is consistent with the construction of the complete year CiteScore. CiteScore Tracker is not based on a rolling 12-month window.

The metric values are fixed around springtime, then the Tracker is calculated for the subsequent year. For example, CiteScore Tracker 2023 will be complete and fixed around May 2024, when CiteScore Tracker 2024 will start to be displayed in Scopus.com.

CiteScore rank

Displays the CiteScore ranking of a source as:

• In category - This is the subject category within which the CiteScore Percentile and Rank are calculated. CiteScore Percentile and Rank are calculated for all subject areas that the source belongs to.
• Percentile - Percentile indicates the relative standing of a source in its subject field. Each subject field is divided into 100 equal-sized percentiles based on the number of sources, and a source is assigned to a percentile based on its CiteScore. A source that has a CiteScore Percentile of 96% is ranked according to CiteScore as high or higher than 96% of sources in that category.
• Rank - The Rank is the source's CiteScore ranking placement when compared to other sources in that same category.

CiteScore rank year

Select to change the CiteScore rank year. The CiteScore rank updates based on the selected year, a source may rank differently based on the CiteScore calculated for that year.

In category

This is the subject category within which the CiteScore Percentile and Rank are calculated. CiteScore Percentile and Rank are calculated for all subject areas that the source belongs to.

Subject areas for Sources are continuously reevaluated and at times, their subject categories may change. Also, sources evolve, and their subject categories may change over time.

A source subject category classification used in CiteScore calculation may vary from year to year. This explains the discrepancy between a source subject area and the CiteScore rank In category dropdown.

Rank

The Rank is the source CiteScore ranking placement when compared to other sources in that same category.

Source title

This is the title of the source. Select to open the Source details page.

CiteScore

Lists the CiteScore for a source.

For more information, see What is CiteScore?

Percentile

Percentile indicates the relative standing of a source in its subject field. Each subject field is divided into 100 equal-sized percentiles based on the number of sources, and a source is assigned to a percentile based on its CiteScore.

A source that has a CiteScore Percentile of 96% is ranked according to CiteScore as high or higher than 96% of sources in that category.

CiteScore trend graphs

The two graphs indicate a bar graph and a plot diagram representing the CiteScore trend for CiteScore values and CiteScore Percentile in category per year.

Feature

Description

Year

Indicates a year of Scopus content coverage for the source.

Documents published

This is the number of documents for a source based on a given year of Scopus content coverage.

Select the documents number to display a list of documents from that year. For more information, see How do I work with document search results?

View Citation Overview

Select 'View Citation Overview' to generate a Citation overview showing how often articles from the associated publication year have been cited. For more information, see How do I create a Citation overview?