Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences

Journal Statistics & Impact

Journal Statistics and Impact

Popularity of Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences (PJCSS)

PJCSS enjoys very good reputation and respect for providing significant contribution to commerce and cognate disciplines in Pakistan. It is also very popular in India, Iran, Malaysia, Turkey and Indonesia. This is substantiated by international representation of authors, full text downloading and citations of PJCSS from these countries. Each year, around 6000 scholars visit PJCSS website to search its content. As PJCSS is a recognized/accredited and funded journal by the Higher Education Commission (HEC), Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training, Government of Pakistan. Thus, Pakistani authors get full credit of their publications in PJCSS towards tenure appointments on TTS promotion and permanent appointments on BPS scales (http://hec.gov.pk/english/services/faculty/Documents/Thematic%20Research/MULTI-DIS.pdf), that’s why faculty members from public/private sector universities and degree awarding institutes of Pakistan prefer to publish their funded and non-funded research projects in PJCSS. It receives more than 350 research papers each year from Pakistan and around the globe. After going through very stringent and rigorous peer review process, acceptance rate remains around 20%. In this way, PJCSS maintains publishing quality through very good selection of papers from among all public and private sector universities and degree awarding institutes of Pakistan. Interest of scholarly community in PJCSS content is also reflected from the following citations of PJCSS in Scopus, Web of Science/Clarivate Analytics and Google Scholar:

Journal’s Citation and Publishing Record (31^st May, 2017)

Year	Scopus	Web of Science (WoS) Clarivate Analytics	Google Scholar	Papers Published
2008	0	0	0	9
2009	0	1	6	12
2010	3	1	17	16
2011	9	5	38	25
2012	6	2	56	33
2013	18	3	142	52
2014	33	6	213	58
2015	68	16	383	59
2016	78	30	638	41
2017	28	6	174	19
TOTAL	243	70*	1667	305

Note: 1) *Citations in Emerging Sources Citation Index have been excluded from WoS calculations.

2) Journal’s self-citations have been excluded from all of the above calculations.

Country-Wise Citation (other than Pakistan)

(Interest of scholarly community in PJCSS content)

Country	Citations (Google Scholar)
India	151
Malaysia	103
Turkey	103
Iran	54
Indonesia	88
USA	97
Nigeria	48
Kenia	75
UK	30
South Africa	47
China	41
Bangla Desh	30
Romania	17

Note: Countries with lesser than 15 citations have not been shown in the above table.

Journal’s Citation – Academic Research Databases (31^st May, 2017)

(Interest of scholarly community in PJCSS content)

Database	No. of Citations
Springer Link	39
Taylor & Francis	27
Emerald Insight	25
Science Direct	21
Sage Journals	12
Inderscience	15
Wiley Online	5
Gale Cengage Learning	2
Palgrave Macmillan	4
Oxford Journals	1
IGI Global	10
Cambridge Uni Press	3
Total	164

Diversity of Authors

Year	Papers exclusively from Pakistan	Papers with authors from more than one countries	Papers with exclusively overseas authors
2008	8	0	1
2009	8	1	3
2010	10	2	4
2011	16	5	4
2012	27	1	5
2013	47	1	4
2014	53	4	1
2015	52	6	1
2016	35	5	3
2017	16	2	1
Total	272	27	27

International Representation of Authors

(Authors with overseas institutional affiliation)

Country	Number of authors
USA	7
UK	10
France	2
Australia	2
Finland	2
Canada	2
Japan	1
Turkey	2
Malaysia	39
Iran	6
Bangladesh	10
India	4
Indonesia	3
Singapore	1
Philippine	1
Qatar	1
China	1
Nigeria	1