Scimago Journal & Country Rank

Studies in Media and Communication

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
Communication2022Q4
Communication2023Q4
Political Science and International Relations2022Q4
Political Science and International Relations2023Q3
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)2022Q4
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)2023Q4
Sociology and Political Science2022Q4
Sociology and Political Science2023Q4
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
20220.120
20230.142
Total Documents

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

YearDocuments
201914
202016
202115
202278
2023142
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)20190.000
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20200.286
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20210.567
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20220.533
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20230.659
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20190.000
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20200.286
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20210.567
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20220.533
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20230.651
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20190.000
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20200.286
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20210.567
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20220.484
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20230.634
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 Cites20190
Self Cites20200
Self Cites20213
Self Cites20223
Self Cites202319
Total Cites20190
Total Cites20204
Total Cites202117
Total Cites202224
Total Cites202371
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 document20190
External Cites per document20200.286
External Cites per document20210.467
External Cites per document20220.467
External Cites per document20230.477
Cites per document20190.000
Cites per document20200.286
Cites per document20210.567
Cites per document20220.533
Cites per document20230.651
% 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
201921.43
20200.00
202120.00
20226.41
202316.20
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 documents20190
Non-citable documents20200
Non-citable documents20210
Non-citable documents20220
Non-citable documents20231
Citable documents20190
Citable documents202014
Citable documents202130
Citable documents202245
Citable documents2023108
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 documents20190
Uncited documents202011
Uncited documents202119
Uncited documents202228
Uncited documents202375
Cited documents20190
Cited documents20203
Cited documents202111
Cited documents202217
Cited documents202334
% Female Authors

Evolution of the percentage of female authors.

YearFemale Percent
201950.00
202052.00
202155.26
202266.18
202348.87
Documents cited by public policy (Overton)

Evolution of the number of documents cited by public policy documents according to Overton database.

DocumentsYearValue
Overton20191
Overton20200
Overton20210
Overton20220
Overton20230
Documents related to SDGs (UN)

Evoution of the number of documents related to Sustainable Development Goals defined by United Nations. Available from 2018 onwards.

DocumentsYearValue
SDG20195
SDG20205
SDG20215
SDG202216
SDG202352
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