Article [7]Citation Stats

Know where your research travels.

Abstract

Citation Stats reports how your journal's articles are read and cited: downloads, citations and indexing coverage by article, issue and volume. Reports are ready to export for editorial board meetings, society councils and funder reports.

  • Downloads and citations by article, issue and volume
  • Indexing coverage across the services your journal uses
  • CSV export and scheduled reports for your board
J. Soil Microbial Sci./Citation StatsLast 12 months
48,210Downloads
1,936Citations
117Countries reached
Figure 1. Downloads by month for one journal across twelve months.
J. Soil Microbial Sci./Citation Stats/By articleExport CSV
  • 1Soil microbiome shifts under drip irrigation 6,402 41
  • 2Metagenomes of saline paddy soils 4,118 33
  • 3Biochar and fungal network recovery 3,870 29
Figure 2. The most read and most cited articles of the current volume.
1.

Readership you can report

Downloads are counted by article, issue and country, with bots filtered out. Editors can see which topics draw readers and which special issues travelled furthest.

  • Downloads by article, issue and country
  • Views of HTML and PDF counted separately
  • Comparisons between volumes
2.

Citations from registered DOIs

Citations are counted from the reference lists of registered DOIs, so every number can be traced to a citing article. There are no estimates and no invented impact scores.

  • Citing articles listed for every paper
  • Citations by year since publication
  • Self-citation share shown separately
J. Soil Microbial Sci./Indexing coverageVol. 8
ServiceStatusCoverage
CrossrefDeposited100%
Google ScholarHarvested98%
DOAJMetadata sent100%
ScopusUnder evaluationPending
Figure 3. Indexing coverage for the current volume.
3.

Indexing coverage

See which services have harvested each article and where metadata is missing. Gaps are flagged so production can fix them before the next deposit.

Table 1

Citation Stats at a glance

Downloads
Article, issue, volume and country, bots filtered
Citations
Counted from registered DOI references
Exports
CSV and PDF reports, scheduled monthly or yearly
Multi-journal
Portfolio reports on the Review Collection plan
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