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SCImago Journal & Country Rank released today a new update incorporating Scopus records belonging to the year 2008. This major update entails the inclusion, for the first time, of complete citation and publication data from Scopus 2008 dataset as well as the availability, on the SJR website, of indicators for journals and countries for that year. In terms of coverage, the update implies the inclusion of new titles coming from the recent Scopus inclusion of ERIH's Art and Humanities. In addition, a new journal assessment feature was added to the website, consisting of the inclusion of Journal's SJR indicator Quartiles. We describe below some important facts about the update.

2008 Collection
This update involves the processing of publication and citation data of Scopus 2008 Collection. Also, as in precedent updates, retrospective data have been processed to increase the coverage of titles not yet fully indexed. After the update, SJR include 17,124 titles.

SJR indicator Quartiles
In order to offer a framework to facilitate journal assessment, SJR Journal Profile Pages show now journal's SJR indicator Quartiles for each subject category in which they are included. It can be viewed in the small icons alongside Subject Categories Labels stating Q1, Q2, Q3 and Q4.

SJR is getting social
SRG SCImago Research Group has started up Facebook and Twitter accounts to get in touch with users. These new channels will serve as a communication line between SRG products and its users. We will use them to release any important information regarding SCImago Journal & Country Rank and SCImago Institutions Rankings, but also we will gather your suggestions and will resolve your questions. Fell free to use Facebook and Twitter buttons on SJR Homepage.

SJR Usability Improvements
Some usability improvements have been carried out throughout the website, including the following:

• Section Names on the Navigation Menu were modified so they are more intuitive.
• Charts and Tables in Journal Profile Pages were split into tabs to facilitate data inspection.
• Chart titles and descriptions in Journal Profile Pages were improved to facilitate the understanding of what they show.
• Direct link from journals to other journals published by the same publisher were included in Journal Profile Pages
• Some minor design modifications have been implemented to improve user experience: title colors, new design of tagline, country names replaced by flags in the rankings, etc.
• Links to SRG SCImago Research Group's Facebook page and Twitter account.

Indicators recalculated
SJR indicators were recalculated to entirely accommodate the bibliometric information provided by these new data.

Top 10 Journals by SJR

1. Annual Review of Immunology (SJR: 16,2; H-Index: 179)
2. Cell (SJR: 12,8; H-Index: 431)
3. Annual Review of Biochemistry (SJR: 11,6; H-Index: 165)
4. Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians (SJR: 11,33; H-Index: 69)
5. Nature Genetics (SJR: 10,63; H-Index: 311)
6. Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology (SJR: 9,49; H-Index: 124)
7. Nature Immunology (SJR: 8,59; H-Index: 184)
8. Cancer Cell (SJR: 8,53; H-Index: 127)
9. Immunity (SJR: 8,37; H-Index: 212)
10. Annual Review of Neuroscience (SJR: 8,21; H-Index: 128)

The SCImago Research Group is glad to announce the release of the SCImago Institutions Rankings 2009 World Report available for download at http://www.scimagoir.com in pdf and csv formats.

The SIR 2009 World Report ranks the best 2000 worldwide Research Institutions and Organizations and analyzes its research performance in the period 2003-2007 over 5 global indicators of output, collaboration and scientific impact:

• Output
• Cites per document
• International Collaboration
• Normalized SJR
• Normalized Citation

The report, showing a first version of the results of the SCImago Institutions Rankings research project, is built with data from Elsevier database Scopus (over 16 millions of publications and 150 millions of citations) and includes research institutions from 84 countries from the five continents, grouped into five research sectors: Government, Higher Education, Health, Corporate and Others.

SCImago Institutions Rankings
The SCImago Institutions Rankings (SIR) project, developed by SRG SCImago Research Group is a Research Evaluation Platform and Ranking Generator to analyze research outputs of universities and research-focused institutions. The SIR platform aims at designing analytical tools to help institutions monitor and assess their research outcomes and make decisions to improve their research performance and funding opportunities.

Further information, including full description of the indicators, available at:
Website: http://www.scimagoir.com
Email: scimagoir@scimago.es

With a little delay, SCImago Journal & Country Rank has released a new update to incorporate the new data coming from March 2009 Scopus update. The update involves the inclusion of new titles not covered before as well as the extension of coverage of publications which are not fully indexed. As a result, the values of the indicators throughout the website have been recalculated and the embeddings have been reconstructed to accommodate the new data. We describe below some important facts about the update.

Full Coverage of 2007 Collection
This update involves the processing of full publication and citation data belonging to Scopus 2007 Collection. Former data shown did not cover the last period of 2007, which has now been completed. Consequently, from now on, 2007 Indicators will only suffer slight variations, that if happen will be due to retrospective indexing.

Inclusion of 111 New Titles
New journals, in a number of 111, have been included into the database, going beyond 16000 journals covered. The full Scopus Collection has been incorporated to SJR, including even those journals presenting low coverage ratios, in order to minimize the time frame needed to display journal outcomes.

SJR Indicators recalculated
SJR indicators have been recalculated to accommodate all the bibliometric information provided by these new data. Last years indicators will show the highest variations since they represent the core of the update, however previous year's values can also experiment changes that will be more accentuated in some areas due to citation profiles.

Retrospective Data Inclusion
To increase the coverage of titles not yet fully indexed, retrospective data have been included. This set of data is usually formed by backward coverage expansion of partially covered journals which were incorporated to the database in recent updates as well as data corrections made as result of the data quality control procedure. However these data do not generally involve significant variations in the value of the indicators.

Top 10 Journals by SJR

1. Annual Review of Immunology (SJR: 18,624)
2. Annual Review of Biochemistry (SJR: 13,292)
3. Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology (SJR: 11,903)
4. Cell (SJR: 10,732)
5. Nature Immunology (SJR: 9,621)
6. Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology (SJR: 9,427)
7. Annual Review of Neuroscience (SJR: 8,494)
8. Annual Review of Genetics (SJR: 8,429)
9. Nature Genetics (SJR: 8,038)
10. Genes and Development (SJR: 7,779)

A recent review appeared on the renowned column Péter's Digital Reference Shelf, written by University of Hawaii's Professor Péter Jacso, has analyzed SJR. The column is published bimonthly at the international publisher Gale Cengage Learning's website and it focuses on mainstream information resources both online and CDROM. In addition to SJR, Péter's Digital Reference Shelf has published reports on Scopus, World Development Indicators 2009 by the World Bank and in February on SCImago Journal & Country Rank.

The comprehensive review focuses on SJR section devoted to Country Indicators. It stresses that SJR's country profile pages "provide more details and excellent visualization for all the countries and territories plus the whole world as a unit". It must be pointed out that SJR main goal is to offer authoritative bibliometric data as well as an analytic tool that make users' work easier, whether they are librarians, publishers, researchers or research paper authors. In this sense, the review also says that "Excellent graphs show a variety of indicators for the selected countries".

One of the most valued characteristic is the ability of SJR to produce reports which allow comparisons of the research activity from different nations. As an example, the author himself carries out small and immediate analysis of international collaboration and citedness based upon tables and charts drawn from SJR Compare function for Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Venezuela.

The review ends up by underlining that "SJR is a top-notch free system with extensive and very important bibliometric statistics about nearly 16,000 serial publications and more than 230 countries and territories".

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"Measuring Up – the Evolution of Impact Metrics" is the title for a seminar organized by The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers from UK where new generation impact metrics will be discussed. According to the seminar programme, the SJR indicator will be one of these metrics jointly with Eigenfactor, H-index and usage (downloads) measurements. The seminar, chaired by Iain Craig Analysis Manager - Bibliometrics at Wiley-Blackwell, will be held at the British Institute of Radiology in London on June, 15th 2009, and will analyse these recently developed metrics characterising different facets of scholarly communication, their strengths and weaknesses and implications in a society increasingly focused on measuring research quality. Invited speakers at the seminar will be Chris Armbruster from Max Planck Society in Germany, Lutz Bornmann from ETH Zurich in Switzerland, Jonathan Adams from Evidence Ltd. In UK, Johan Bollen from Los Alamos National Laboratory in USA, Martin Meyer from the University of Sussex in UK and Geoff Bilder form CrossRef.

Measuring Up - the Evolution of Impact Metrics
ALPSP Seminar
Monday 15 June 2009, London
British Institute of Radiology, 36 Portland Place, London, W1B 1AT, UK
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Former seminars on new bibliometrics including the SJR indicator.
The ALPSP seminar is not the first one discussing the SJR indicator as an important agent in new bibliometrics trends, it forms part of a list which include the SJR indicator among the emerging methodologies to analyse bibliographic data in research performance evaluation. Previous lectures/seminars on research evaluation discussing the SRJ indicator were:

• Citation Analysis & Evaluating Research Performance. The Impact Factor, h-index and beyond.
  By: The Professional/Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of the Association of American Publishers Journals Committee
  Held at New York on November 19th, 2008.
• College Colloquium Series: Dr. Vicente Guerrero Speaks on SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
  At the College of Information Science and Technology at the University of Drexel, Philadelphia, USA November 20th, 2008.