Publications in Top Journal Percentiles indicates the extent to which an entity’s outputs are present in the most-cited journals in a database source. This metric calculates how many publications, as an absolute count or a percentage, are in the top 1%, 5%, 10% or 25% of the most-cited journals indexed by the database source. An entity can be an institution, a research group or an individual researcher.
The most-cited journals are defined by the journal metrics SNIP (Source-Normalized Impact per Paper) or SJR (SCImago Journal Rank). SNIP and SJR are both field-normalized journal metrics, meaning that this metric can be used to compare the presence of publications in journals of entities working in different disciplines.
Publications in Top Journal Percentiles is useful for showcasing the presence of publications in journals that are likely to be perceived as s the most prestigious in the world or when benchmarking entities even if they have different sizes and disciplinary profiles (the “Percentage” option should be used when comparing entities of different sizes, to normalize for this variable).
Publications in Top Journal Percentiles must be used with caution:
