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Quantitative Science Studiesopen access

Country

United States

Universities and research institutions in United States
Media Ranking in United States

Subject Area and Category

Publisher

MIT Press Journals

H-Index

24

Publication type

Journals

ISSN

26413337

Coverage

2020-2023

Information

Homepage

How to publish in this journal

qss@issi-society.org

Scope

Quantitative Science Studies is the official open access journal of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI). It publishes theoretical and empirical research on science and the scientific workforce. Emphasis is placed on studies that provide insight into the system of science, general laws of scientific work, scholarly communication, science indicators, science policy, and the scientific workforce. Quantitative Science Studies was established in early 2019. The editors and editorial board members of the journal previously held editorial positions at Journal of Informetrics, from which they resigned in early 2019. 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
Analysis2022Q1
Analysis2023Q1
Cultural Studies2022Q1
Cultural Studies2023Q1
Library and Information Sciences2022Q1
Library and Information Sciences2023Q1
Numerical Analysis2022Q1
Numerical Analysis2023Q1
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
20221.612
20231.850
Total Documents

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

YearDocuments
202091
202159
202274
202351
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)20200.000
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20215.264
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20226.573
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20236.371
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20200.000
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20215.264
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20226.573
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20236.371
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20200.000
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20215.264
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20226.573
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20234.158
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 Cites20200
Self Cites202144
Self Cites2022111
Self Cites202363
Total Cites20200
Total Cites2021479
Total Cites2022986
Total Cites20231427
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 document20200
External Cites per document20214.780
External Cites per document20225.833
External Cites per document20236.089
Cites per document20200.000
Cites per document20215.264
Cites per document20226.573
Cites per document20236.371
% 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
202031.87
202137.29
202228.38
202335.29
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 documents20200
Non-citable documents20213
Non-citable documents202212
Non-citable documents202316
Citable documents20200
Citable documents202188
Citable documents2022138
Citable documents2023208
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 documents20200
Uncited documents202115
Uncited documents202224
Uncited documents202349
Cited documents20200
Cited documents202176
Cited documents2022126
Cited documents2023175
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