Aloma

Aloma is a scientific journal published in open access by the Blanquerna Faculty of Psychology and Education and Sport Science of Ramon Llull University in Barcelona. It was founded in 1997, and currently publishes two issues a year. The journal accepts research studies or reviews written in English, Spanish and Catalan on the fields of Psychology, Education Sciences and Sport Science and Physical Activity dealing with the psychological, educational and social impact of communication and information technology. This would not only include articles that explore the effects of the Internet and digital technologies and their uses, taking in research on mobile devices, online social networks and videogames. It would also embrace studies on the use of digital technologies for social and educational transformation and the promotion of physical activity and health. The journal has an international Editorial and Advisory Board, and all manuscripts are subject to a process of double-blind peer review.

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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.

Category	Year	Quartile
Computer Networks and Communications	2019	Q4
Education	2019	Q4
Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation	2019	Q4
Psychology (miscellaneous)	2019	Q4

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.

Year	SJR
2019	0.166

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 document	Year	Value
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2018	0.000
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2019	0.500
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2018	0.000
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2019	0.500
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2018	0.000
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2019	0.500

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.

Cites	Year	Value
Self Cites	2018	0
Self Cites	2019	1
Total Cites	2018	0
Total Cites	2019	5

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.

Cites	Year	Value
External Cites per document	2018	0
External Cites per document	2019	0.400
Cites per document	2018	0.000
Cites per document	2019	0.500

% 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.

Year	International Collaboration
2018	0.00
2019	28.57

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.