2022 CiteScores – Released

The 2022 citation metrics have been officially released in Scopus, the most comprehensive bibliographic database of scientific literature.

Below are highlights from MDPI's recent CiteScores, which measure the average number of citations per paper within a journal over the past three years:

31 journals received their first CiteScore, taking the total number of journals with a CiteScore to 216.
172 journals (80%) rank above average (in Q1 or Q2), with ten journals placed in the top 10%.
The average CiteScore rank percentile of all MDPI journals is 65 (using an average percentile for journals which are listed in multiple categories), exceeding 65% of all the journals in Scopus.

The following 80 MDPI journals (38%) are ranked in Q1 of journals (in at least one category):

Journal	CiteScore	Rank Percentile (100 = highest)	Citations (2019–2022)
*Marine Drugs*	9.6	87	27,126
*Non-coding RNA*	9.6	83	2414
*Antibodies*	9.6	80	2384
*Nutrients*	9.0	89	149,737
*Cells*	9.0	84	107,490
*Antioxidants*	8.8	79	55,568
*Smart Cities*	8.5	86	2270
*Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction*	8.5	85	1681
*Biomolecules*	8.3	74	52,327
*Remote Sensing*	7.9	90	143,768
*International Journal of Molecular Sciences*	7.8	75	352,748
*Resources*	7.7	88	4278
*Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks*	7.6	90	1995
*Toxins*	7.5	82	24,516
*Nanomaterials*	7.4	80	88,314
*Cancers*	7.4	68	134,192
*Viruses*	7.1	69	56,284
*Fibers*	7.0	75	2604
*Vaccines*	7.0	71	32,150
*Pharmaceutics*	6.9	76	47,131
*Sensors*	6.8	77	210,254
*Future Internet*	6.7	77	7846
*Molecules*	6.7	72	184,529
*Polymers*	6.6	76	100,096
*Catalysts*	6.3	68	35,228
*ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information*	6.2	83	16,978
*Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research*	6.2	79	1881
*Drones*	6.1	74	4436
*Robotics*	5.9	66	2907
*Environments*	5.9	59	2976
*Foods*	5.8	81	56,352
*Soil Systems*	5.8	79	1777
*Beverages*	5.8	78	1675
*Sustainability*	5.8	75	281,274
*Technologies*	5.5	80	2147
*Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing*	5.5	75	2812
*Water*	5.5	74	74,947
*Energies*	5.5	71	161,755
*Antibiotics*	5.5	64	25,010
*Journal of Clinical Medicine*	5.4	83	104,671
*Inventions*	5.4	82	1881
*Plants*	5.4	82	47,082
*International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health*	5.4	68	241,049
*Sports*	5.2	83	4057
*Agronomy*	5.2	79	44,161
*Geosciences*	5.2	79	10,245
*Internet of Things*	5.2	76	461
*Logistics*	5.1	71	1008
*International Journal of Neonatal Screening*	5.0	82	1276
*Publications*	5.0	79	1073
*Symmetry*	4.9	79	42,324
*Applied System Innovation*	4.9	70	1532
*Journal of Fungi*	4.9	70	13,849
*Big Data and Cognitive Computing*	4.9	66	1601
*Biosensors*	4.9	62	10,019
*Prosthesis*	4.8	72	593
*Informatics*	4.8	68	1387
*Entropy*	4.7	73	28,732
*ChemEngineering*	4.7	66	1594
*AgriEngineering*	4.6	81	994
*Cosmetics*	4.6	63	1921
*Forests*	4.5	79	28,662
*Urban Science*	4.5	68	1480
*Applied Sciences*	4.5	63	176,120
*Metals*	4.4	65	30,853
*Animals*	4.2	85	44,224
*Insects*	4.2	81	15,074
*Forecasting*	4.0	74	553
*Education Sciences*	4.0	68	9483
*Biology*	4.0	67	14,903
*Fractal and Fractional*	3.6	78	4072
*Mathematics*	3.5	71	39,778
*Social Sciences*	3.2	78	4468
*Economies*	3.2	74	2432
*Buildings*	3.1	64	10,404
*Risks*	3.1	62	2222
*Heritage*	2.8	78	2010
*Axioms*	2.2	70	3005
*Religions*	1.1	91	4054
*Philosophies*	1.1	73	388

Source: 2022 CiteScores™ (Elsevier)

CiteScore is now a widely accepted citation metric developed from Scopus data, calculated by dividing the total number of citations to peer-reviewed articles in a journal in 2019–2022 by the total number of peer-reviewed articles published in the journal over the same period. CiteScore complements other journal-related metrics such as SNIP and SJR.