Source Titles

This page contains information about the Source Titles data source in the Dimensions BigQuery project. The Source Titles data source is a curated database of publications ‘containers’, for example journals, preprint servers, book series and others.

See also

Dimensions DSL API Documentation for this type is also available from here.

Source Titles Schema

Field

Type

Description

id

Literal: String

The Dimensions ID of the source.

issn_online

Literal: String

Electronic ISSN for the source.

issn_print

Literal: String

Print ISSN for the source.

issns

Array of < Literal: String >

List of known ISSNs for the source, including both print and electronic.

journal_lists

Array of < Literal: String >

Source’s association with independent groupings of journals outside of Dimensions, e.g. ‘ERA 2015’ or ‘Norwegian register level 1’.

linkout

Literal: String

The source web URL, if known.

sjr

Literal: Float

SJR indicator (SCImago Journal Rank). This indicator measures both the number of citations received by a journal and the importance or prestige of the journals where the citations come from.

snip

Literal: Float

SNIP indicator (source normalized impact per paper). This indicator measures the average citation impact of the publications of a journal.

start_year

Literal: Integer

Year when the source started publishing.

title

Literal: String

The title of the source.

type

Literal: String

The source type: one of book_series, proceeding, journal, preprint_platform (4 in total).