Scimago Journal & Country Rank

Arid Zone Research

Country

China

Universities and research institutions in China
Media Ranking in China

Subject Area and Category

Publisher

Springer Science + Business Media

H-Index

14

Publication type

Journals

ISSN

10014675

Coverage

2019-2023

Information

Homepage

How to publish in this journal

azr@ms.xjb.ac.cn

Scope

Arid Zone Research (AZR), founded in 1984, is a bimonthly academic Chinese journal (ISSN1001-4675, CN65-1095/X) with 6 issues per year. The journal is superintended by Chinese Academy of Sciences, jointly sponsored by Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Soil Science Society of China, and published by Science Press. 'Arid Zone Research' adheres to the purpose of serving readers, authors, and promoting the development of disciplines as the core, and strives to improve the quality and grade of journal. The journal expands academic exchanges with the Central Asia countries, and has a purposeful plan to establish special column in arid regions of Central Asia. 'Arid Zone Research' timely disseminated the latest scientific and technological achievements at domestic and overseas. The journal will carry forward the original academic spirit, take the 'scientific discovery priority' as the highest goal, give priority to the publication of high-quality original academic papers, and adhere to the principle of 'controlling the quality, publish quality articles'. The journal publishes innovative research papers, monographs and reviews, research methods and application of new technologies of arid areas of water, soil, biology, climate and environment. We also publish academic discussions and debates, academic trends at domestic and overseas, introduction of new books in arid areas. The journal focusing on the global changes in arid zone response, inland water cycle and water resources, adaptation to climate change in fragile ecosystems in arid regions, oasis ecosystem construction, oasis discipline development, and other basic scientific issues in arid regions, and the achievements of desert transformation and utilization. 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
Atmospheric Science2021Q4
Atmospheric Science2022Q4
Atmospheric Science2023Q3
Ecology2021Q4
Ecology2022Q3
Ecology2023Q3
Environmental Science (miscellaneous)2021Q3
Environmental Science (miscellaneous)2022Q3
Environmental Science (miscellaneous)2023Q3
Geology2021Q4
Geology2022Q3
Geology2023Q3
Water Science and Technology2021Q3
Water Science and Technology2022Q3
Water Science and Technology2023Q3
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
20210.192
20220.279
20230.314
Total Documents

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

YearDocuments
201975
2020180
2021184
2022188
2023192
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)20201.213
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20211.420
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20221.487
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20231.442
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20190.000
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20201.213
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20211.420
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20221.487
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20231.498
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20190.000
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20201.213
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20211.420
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20221.497
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20231.742
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 Cites202063
Self Cites2021175
Self Cites2022276
Self Cites2023314
Total Cites20190
Total Cites202091
Total Cites2021362
Total Cites2022653
Total Cites2023827
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 document20200.373
External Cites per document20210.733
External Cites per document20220.859
External Cites per document20230.929
Cites per document20190.000
Cites per document20201.213
Cites per document20211.420
Cites per document20221.487
Cites per document20231.498
% 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
20195.33
20201.67
20211.63
20222.13
20230.52
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 documents20230
Citable documents20190
Citable documents202075
Citable documents2021255
Citable documents2022439
Citable documents2023552
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 documents202025
Uncited documents202188
Uncited documents2022141
Uncited documents2023187
Cited documents20190
Cited documents202050
Cited documents2021167
Cited documents2022298
Cited documents2023365
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