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Estudos em Comunicacaoopen access

Country

Portugal

Universities and research institutions in Portugal
Media Ranking in Portugal

Subject Area and Category

Publisher

Universidade da Beira Interior

Universidade da Beira Interior in Scimago Institutions Rankings

H-Index

7

Publication type

Journals

ISSN

16464974

Coverage

2017-2022

Information

Homepage

How to publish in this journal

joao.correia@labcom.ubi.pt

Scope

The main guidelines of the Journal editorial policy are oriented to the concepts of "citizenship" and "participation", understood from a communicational point of view, involving processes and devices of knowledge circulation and opinion formation in the political field in general, and in specific areas of public policy such as health, education, science culture, public opinion, gender and identity. As examples of priority interests areas one finds the following: journalism and public opinion; citizen, participatory and public journalism; responsibility and accountability of institutions, governments and companies; media and public sphere; social movements in the areas of environment, science, health, ecology, culture, identity and gender; media and political parties; political representation; new forms of online participation; methods of analysis of participation; digital democracy; media, deliberation and participation; communitarian communication; communication and development; policies of recognition and comparative studies of communication in different geographical and cultural contexts, among others. Join the conversation about this journal
Quartiles

The set of journals have been ranked according to their SJR and divided into four equal groups, four quartiles. Q1 (green) comprises the quarter of the journals with the highest values, Q2 (yellow) the second highest values, Q3 (orange) the third highest values and Q4 (red) the lowest values.

CategoryYearQuartile
Communication2018Q4
Communication2019Q4
Communication2020Q4
Communication2021Q4
Communication2022Q3
Communication2023Q3
SJR

The SJR is a size-independent prestige indicator that ranks journals by their 'average prestige per article'. It is based on the idea that 'all citations are not created equal'. SJR is a measure of scientific influence of 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 It measures the scientific influence of the average article in a journal, it expresses how central to the global scientific discussion an average article of the journal is.

YearSJR
20180.138
20190.112
20200.137
20210.113
20220.155
20230.200
Total Documents

Evolution of the number of published documents. All types of documents are considered, including citable and non citable documents.

YearDocuments
201741
201864
201918
202020
202118
202216
202332
Citations per document

This indicator counts the number of citations received by documents from a journal and divides them by the total number of documents published in that journal. The chart shows the evolution of the average number of times documents published in a journal in the past two, three and four years have been cited in the current year. The two years line is equivalent to journal impact factor ™ (Thomson Reuters) metric.

Cites per documentYearValue
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20170.000
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20180.171
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20190.095
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20200.236
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20210.252
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20220.267
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20230.458
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20170.000
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20180.171
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20190.095
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20200.236
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20210.196
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20220.304
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20230.463
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20170.000
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20180.171
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20190.095
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20200.195
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20210.158
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20220.316
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20230.441
Total Cites 
Self-Cites

Evolution of the total number of citations and journal's self-citations received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years.
Journal Self-citation is defined as the number of citation from a journal citing article to articles published by the same journal.

CitesYearValue
Self Cites20170
Self Cites20182
Self Cites20191
Self Cites20202
Self Cites20212
Self Cites20222
Self Cites20232
Total Cites20170
Total Cites20187
Total Cites201910
Total Cites202029
Total Cites202120
Total Cites202217
Total Cites202325
External Cites per Doc 
Cites per Doc

Evolution of the number of total citation per document and external citation per document (i.e. journal self-citations removed) received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years. External citations are calculated by subtracting the number of self-citations from the total number of citations received by the journal’s documents.

CitesYearValue
External Cites per document20170
External Cites per document20180.122
External Cites per document20190.086
External Cites per document20200.220
External Cites per document20210.176
External Cites per document20220.268
External Cites per document20230.426
Cites per document20170.000
Cites per document20180.171
Cites per document20190.095
Cites per document20200.236
Cites per document20210.196
Cites per document20220.304
Cites per document20230.463
% International Collaboration

International Collaboration accounts for the articles that have been produced by researchers from several countries. The chart shows the ratio of a journal's documents signed by researchers from more than one country; that is including more than one country address.

YearInternational Collaboration
20172.44
20180.00
20195.56
202015.00
20215.56
202212.50
20233.13
Citable documents 
Non-citable documents

Not every article in a journal is considered primary research and therefore "citable", this chart shows the ratio of a journal's articles including substantial research (research articles, conference papers and reviews) in three year windows vs. those documents other than research articles, reviews and conference papers.

DocumentsYearValue
Non-citable documents20170
Non-citable documents20181
Non-citable documents20193
Non-citable documents20203
Non-citable documents20212
Non-citable documents20220
Non-citable documents20230
Citable documents20170
Citable documents201840
Citable documents2019102
Citable documents2020120
Citable documents2021100
Citable documents202256
Citable documents202354
Cited documents 
Uncited documents

Ratio of a journal's items, grouped in three years windows, that have been cited at least once vs. those not cited during the following year.

DocumentsYearValue
Uncited documents20170
Uncited documents201836
Uncited documents201996
Uncited documents2020102
Uncited documents202184
Uncited documents202247
Uncited documents202339
Cited documents20170
Cited documents20185
Cited documents20199
Cited documents202021
Cited documents202118
Cited documents20229
Cited documents202315
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