SCImago Journal

[DominiqueMakowski]

Just discovered this nice package for extracting the SJR index of journals' prestige. It could potentially be a nice addition to the impact_factor related functions.

Specifically, as it includes the SJR index for different years, it would provide a unique opportunity to compute this index for each author's publication at their time of publication. Could be interesting for developing new authors' impact metrics.

[rudazhang]

Associating publications with journal impact factors is a nice feature to have, but a more immediate issue I think is to uniquely identify the journals, which Google Scholar does not do.

[xraynaud]

The sjr data available in the package seems outdated. Updated data is available here: https://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php?out=xls

Below is a modified version of get_journalrank() to download an updated version. (Please note that I'm using readr::read_csv2 due to problems with decimal separators in the scimago table and that readr has some parsing errors, that are due to missing quotes in the scimago data table).

get_journalrank <- function (journals, max.distance = 0.05) {
  readr::read_csv2("https://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php?out=xls")-> myjournalrankings
  scholar:::get_journal_stats(journals, max.distance, myjournalrankings, col= "Title")
}