Published at October 25th, 2025 Last updated 9 days ago

Journal level metrics from Scopus

Metrics available

Without subscription:

  • Number of publications
  • Total citations
  • Total citations (excluding self-cites)
  • Number of documents with zero citations
  • Percent of articles cited
  • CiteScore
  • SNIP
  • SJR
  • Category metrics
    • Journal rank,
    • Quartile,
    • Percentile

Updating metrics:

The metrics can be updated by using the job "Scopus: Update/Create Journals And Metrics" (Administration → Cron job → Scopus: Update/Create Journals And Metrics)

Journals are matched by ISSN number

Available in Pure:

The Scopus metrics are stored on the Journal editor.

The rating is shown in the short renderer of a journal (eg. for searching for a journal to add to a Research Output)

Pure portal:

Scopus journal ratings are not available in Pure portal

Available in reporting:

Scopus metrics are available for reporting

Title Description File (To be used →5.24) File (To be used 5.25+5.26) File (To be used 5.27→)
Citescore Listing CiteScore per journal per year CiteScore.json    
Citescore per year  Listing publications including CiteScore per year of related journal - using split functionality
Current years publications incl. SJR and SNIP

Listing all publication from current year, the related Journal with SNIP and SJR 

(Note current year = 2021)

Journal metric year equal publications year Listing all Research outputs and include the CiteScore, SNIP and SJR of the year of the earliest publication year (e-pub or publish year) of the publication.    

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