SCImago is both a Spanish consulting company (Scimago Lab) and a network of research groups working in several Spanish and Latin American academic institutions that perform specialized research in scientometrics, scientific publishing and web visibility. The company was born as a spin-off of research groups located at the University of Granada and the Spanish National Reseach Council (CSIC) and it is now a world leader in the generation of indicators and methodologies for evaluating research activity, the creation of popular metrics portals and innovative tools that include concepts (SJR indicator inspired by Google’s Pagerank, Jounal quartiles, excellence with leadership) that have been adopted by both Elsevier Scopus and Clarivate WoS. 

SCIMAGO carries out world-class research into indicator development and is an innovator in ranking building. SCImago has developed:

• SCImago Journal Rank & Country Rank (SJR) is a portal that includes journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in Scopus. This portal takes its name from the SCImago Journal Rank indicator developed by SCimago.

• Shape of Science is an information visualization project whose aim is to reveal the structure of science.

• SCImago Institutions Rankings (SIR) is a classification of academic and research-related institutions ranked by a composite indicator that combines three different sets of indicators based on research performance, innovation outputs and societal impact measured by their web visibility.

SCImago Institutions Rankings Methodology

• Atlas of Science project proposes the creation of an information system whose major aim is to achieve a graphic representation of IberoAmerican Science Research. Such representation is conceived as a collection of interactive maps, allowing navigation functions throughout the semantic spaces formed by the maps.