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Explorationopen access

China |Universities and research institutions |Media Ranking

Country

Universities and research institutions Media Ranking

Subject Area and Category

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons Inc

SJR 2024

4.231 Q1

H-Index

42

Publication type

Journals

ISSN

27662098, 27668509

Coverage

2021-2025

Information

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Scope

Exploration is an international, cross-disciplinary and high-quality open-access journal, aiming to promote the development of interdisciplinary sciences and technologies by publishing state-of-the-art research articles, communications, reviews, perspectives and commentaries. Exploration focuses on crossing the boundaries of conventional research disciplines, disseminating impactful research to the general public, and inspiring global multidisciplinary collaborations. Exploration envisions to provide insights for future science and technology, to catalyze novel integrations of cross-disciplinary studies, as well as to explore new insights and methods to overcome the obstacles for a sustainable future for society. Exploration welcomes the comprehensive articles on cutting-edge studies utilizing the perspectives and tools from all research fields. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to the following: -biology and biotechnology- medicine and biomedical engineering- chemistry- material sciences- physics and quantum technology- nanoscience and technology- optics, photonics, electronics and robotics- energy science and technology- engineering- mathematics and computer sciences- emerging interdisciplinary research

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
Multidisciplinary2024Q1
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
20244.231
Total Documents

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

YearDocuments
202130
202261
202364
202479
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 document20210
External Cites per document202224.533
External Cites per document202314.945
External Cites per document202419.742
Cites per document20210.000
Cites per document202224.667
Cites per document202315.022
Cites per document202419.819
% 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
202153.33
202224.59
202359.38
202482.28
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 documents20210
Uncited documents20220
Uncited documents20232
Uncited documents20242
Cited documents20210
Cited documents202230
Cited documents202389
Cited documents2024153
% Female Authors

Evolution of the percentage of female authors.

YearFemale Percent
202132.84
202242.07
202336.51
202436.68
Estimated APC

It estimates the article processing charges (APCs) a journal might charge, based on its visibility, prestige, and impact as measured by the SJR. It does not reflect the actual APC, but rather a calculated approximation based on journal quality.

YearEst. APC (USD)
2021
2022
2023
20244344
Estimated financial value

It represents the potential financial worth of a journal. It is obtained by multiplying the journal's Estimated APC by the total number of citable documents published over the past five years. This value reflects the hypothetical revenue a journal could generate based on its estimated publication costs and scholarly output.

YearEst. value (USD)
2021
2022
2023
2024343149
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 Cites20210
Self Cites20224
Self Cites20237
Self Cites202412
Total Cites20210
Total Cites2022740
Total Cites20231367
Total Cites20243072
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)20210.000
Cites / Doc. (4 years)202224.667
Cites / Doc. (4 years)202315.022
Cites / Doc. (4 years)202419.819
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20210.000
Cites / Doc. (3 years)202224.667
Cites / Doc. (3 years)202315.022
Cites / Doc. (3 years)202419.819
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20210.000
Cites / Doc. (2 years)202224.667
Cites / Doc. (2 years)202315.022
Cites / Doc. (2 years)202419.312
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 documents20210
Non-citable documents20221
Non-citable documents20232
Non-citable documents20242
Citable documents20210
Citable documents202229
Citable documents202389
Citable documents2024153
Documents cited by public policy (Overton)

Evolution of the number of documents cited by public policy documents according to Overton database.

DocumentsYearValue
Overton20210
Overton20220
Overton20230
Overton20240
Documents related to SDGs (UN)

Evolution of the number of documents related to Sustainable Development Goals defined by United Nations. Available from 2018 onwards.

DocumentsYearValue
SDG202111
SDG202222
SDG202331
SDG202439
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