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Madrid, March 23rd, 2011 Scimago Lab’s blog just posted a new entry by Prof. Felix de Moya Anegon, entitled Institutional Collaboration in Global Science where a Collaboration Map of worldwide Research Institutions is discussed. An interesting thing about the proposed map, which has been built using a “force-based layout”-like (aka “spring embedding”) algorithm, is that locates and brings together the institutions according to their collaboration relationships. An immediate advantage of these kinds of visualizations is the simplicity with which complex patterns of connection and clustering are exposed at a glance, which are not easily noted otherwise.

Throughout the post, Prof. De Moya analyzes worldwide research collaboration links at a global level and extract general conclusions to prove the usefulness of the maps elaborated using these visualization techniques.

The post is available at: http://scimagolab.com/blog/2011/institutional-collaboration-in-global-science/

We encourage you to discuss this (and other posts) through the comments; also suggestions for future post are also welcomed.

Borja González Pereira
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Scimago Lab
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Madrid, February 21st, 2011 We are pleased to announce the recent release of the Scimago Lab’s Blog which using an informative approach aims at promoting research analytics trend topics to the media worldwide. Our idea is to make this blog become an interface between outstanding stories and voices from Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, Visualization Techniques, Usability and Research Analytics as well as any area in which Scimago Lab is involved and Mass Media / Public Opinion.

The blog is available at: http://www.scimagolab.com/blog

The list below shows an incomplete list of themes of interest to Scimago Lab to give you a sense of what you can expect to find along the blog’s posts: Research Career Advancement, University Rankings, Scientific Impact, Information Visualization, Research Fronts, Sociology of Science, Science Technology and Innovation Knowledge, Research & Development, Scientific Visibility, Journal Metrics, Information Systems, Information Management, etc...

We intend to provide a place for informed discussion so you are invited to participate either through comments or if you want to write a post send us an email to the address below.

The blog starts up with an interesting post by Prof. Félix de Moya Anegón who analyzes the Normalized Impact Indicator as a tool to evaluate the research performance of universities and other research-devoted institutions.

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Borja Gonzalez Pereira
Scimago Lab
borja.gonzalez@scimago.es

Madrid, January 17, 2011. Scimago Lab is glad to announce the release of a new update of Scimago Journal & Country Rank, our flagship Research Evaluation Environment incorporating journal and national research indicators corresponding to 2009. In addition to keeping site indicators in tune with the current state of the database, new website performance improvements have been incorporated to enhance user experience and speed up system response.

2009 Collection
After this update, the environment includes new data on impact, output, citation and international collaboration for 18,732 scholarly journals, conference proceedings and other scientific publications worldwide, 1,632 more than before. Besides, having about 2 million documents corresponding to 2009, the environment analyzes now more than 21 million documents — 10% rise —, and the increase of citations matched to build website’s performance and impact indicators is about 17%, rising from around 172 million to more than 200 million citations after the update.

National, Regional and World Science
The website has also incorporated 2009 output, citation and scientific impact indicators for countries, world regions and the world report sections. It is noteworthy that in 2009 China has reached the second position in the whole time (1996-2009) series, only behind USA — during 2009 China produced more scientific documents than UK and Germany together.

Indicators recalculated and Embedding redesigned
As usual, SJR indicators have been recalculated to accommodate bibliometric information provided by these new data and journal performance embeddings have been regenerated as well to include 2009 year information.

Some new journals do not inform the SJR indicator value due to that at the moment of release that information could have not been calculated. It will be certainly calculated and shown on April/May 2011 update.

Top 10 Journals by SJR indicator

1. Cell (SJR:13,754)
2. Nature Genetics (SJR:13,236)
3. Annual Review of Immunology (SJR:11,815)
4. Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians (SJR:11,298)
5. Annual Review of Biochemistry (SJR:9,947)
6. Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology (SJR:8,650)
7. Cancer Cell (SJR:8,360)
8. Nature (SJR:8,016)
9. Annual Review of Neuroscience (SJR:7,652)
10. Immunity (SJR:7,611)

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Borja Gonzalez Pereira
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Scimago Lab
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• 2010 edition includes 2,833 Research Institutions
• It analyzes research output, international collaboration and scientific impact
• Reliable resource for science policymakers and research managers
• Developed by SCImago Research Group

The SCImago Research Group just released Scimago Institutions Rankings World Report 2010, the second edition of its Ranking of Worldwide Research Institutions. SIR 2010 World Report is the world's broadest coverage ranking showing research outcomes for 2,833 institutions.

As new analytic features, this year's edition introduces Research Excellence Labels and World/Regional/Country Output Ranks. Every institution has been labeled according to the scientific impact its output has over the scientific community into 3 categories: Green, Yellow and Red. Also, although the ranking tables continue to be sorted by world output rank, the current release shows regional and national ranks for all the institutions.

As in previous years the report groups together institutions by countries and world regions as well as Institutional Sectors including Universities, Government Agencies, Research Hospitals, Companies and Others.

Fully focused on the research dimension of institutions, the indicators shown on the report are:

• Output
• International Collaboration
• Normalized Impact
• Publication Rate into "Best Journals"

SIR World Report 2010 is openly available for download at: http://www.scimagoir.com

More info: http://www.scimagoir.com/press_en.php

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Borja Gonzalez Pereira
SCImago Communication Manager
Email: borja.gonzalez@scimago.es

SCImago Journal & Country Rank released today a new update incorporating Scopus records belonging to the year 2008. This major update entails the inclusion, for the first time, of complete citation and publication data from Scopus 2008 dataset as well as the availability, on the SJR website, of indicators for journals and countries for that year. In terms of coverage, the update implies the inclusion of new titles coming from the recent Scopus inclusion of ERIH's Art and Humanities. In addition, a new journal assessment feature was added to the website, consisting of the inclusion of Journal's SJR indicator Quartiles. We describe below some important facts about the update.

2008 Collection
This update involves the processing of publication and citation data of Scopus 2008 Collection. Also, as in precedent updates, retrospective data have been processed to increase the coverage of titles not yet fully indexed. After the update, SJR include 17,124 titles.

SJR indicator Quartiles
In order to offer a framework to facilitate journal assessment, SJR Journal Profile Pages show now journal's SJR indicator Quartiles for each subject category in which they are included. It can be viewed in the small icons alongside Subject Categories Labels stating Q1, Q2, Q3 and Q4.

SJR is getting social
SRG SCImago Research Group has started up Facebook and Twitter accounts to get in touch with users. These new channels will serve as a communication line between SRG products and its users. We will use them to release any important information regarding SCImago Journal & Country Rank and SCImago Institutions Rankings, but also we will gather your suggestions and will resolve your questions. Fell free to use Facebook and Twitter buttons on SJR Homepage.

SJR Usability Improvements
Some usability improvements have been carried out throughout the website, including the following:

• Section Names on the Navigation Menu were modified so they are more intuitive.
• Charts and Tables in Journal Profile Pages were split into tabs to facilitate data inspection.
• Chart titles and descriptions in Journal Profile Pages were improved to facilitate the understanding of what they show.
• Direct link from journals to other journals published by the same publisher were included in Journal Profile Pages
• Some minor design modifications have been implemented to improve user experience: title colors, new design of tagline, country names replaced by flags in the rankings, etc.
• Links to SRG SCImago Research Group's Facebook page and Twitter account.

Indicators recalculated
SJR indicators were recalculated to entirely accommodate the bibliometric information provided by these new data.

Top 10 Journals by SJR

1. Annual Review of Immunology (SJR: 16,2; H-Index: 179)
2. Cell (SJR: 12,8; H-Index: 431)
3. Annual Review of Biochemistry (SJR: 11,6; H-Index: 165)
4. Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians (SJR: 11,33; H-Index: 69)
5. Nature Genetics (SJR: 10,63; H-Index: 311)
6. Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology (SJR: 9,49; H-Index: 124)
7. Nature Immunology (SJR: 8,59; H-Index: 184)
8. Cancer Cell (SJR: 8,53; H-Index: 127)
9. Immunity (SJR: 8,37; H-Index: 212)
10. Annual Review of Neuroscience (SJR: 8,21; H-Index: 128)