Journal Statistics & 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, Turkey, Malaysia, Indonesia, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa. 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 access 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. 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:
http://hec.gov.pk/english/services/faculty/Documents/Thematic%20Research/MULTI-DIS.pdf
PJCSS 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 (31st August, 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
|
143
|
52
|
|
2014
|
33
|
6
|
214
|
58
|
|
2015
|
68
|
16
|
389
|
59
|
|
2016
|
78
|
30
|
678
|
41
|
|
2017
|
74
|
20
|
390
|
35
|
|
TOTAL
|
289
|
84*
|
1931
|
340
|
Note: 1) *Citations in Emerging Sources Citation Index (57) 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
|
166
|
|
Malaysia
|
117
|
|
Turkey
|
120
|
|
Iran
|
60
|
|
Indonesia
|
106
|
|
USA
|
135
|
|
Nigeria
|
58
|
|
Kenya
|
85
|
|
UK
|
32
|
|
South Africa
|
56
|
|
China
|
50
|
|
Bangla Desh
|
34
|
|
Romania
|
19
|
Note: Countries with lesser than 15 citations have not been shown in the above table.
Journal’s Citation – Academic Research Databases (31st August, 2017)
(Interest of scholarly community in PJCSS content)
|
Database
|
No. of Citations
|
|
Springer Link
|
42
|
|
Taylor & Francis
|
32
|
|
Emerald Insight
|
36
|
|
Science Direct
|
32
|
|
Sage Journals
|
14
|
|
Inderscience
|
19
|
|
Wiley Online
|
5
|
|
Gale Cengage
Learning
|
8
|
|
Palgrave Macmillan
|
5
|
|
Oxford Journals
|
1
|
|
IGI Global
|
13
|
|
Cambridge Uni Press
|
4
|
|
Edward Elgar
|
4
|
|
Total
|
215
|
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
|
28
|
4
|
2
|
|
Total
|
284
|
29
|
28
|
International Representation of Authors
(Authors with overseas institutional affiliation)
|
Country
|
Number of authors
|
|
USA
|
8
|
|
UK
|
11
|
|
France
|
2
|
|
Australia
|
2
|
|
Finland
|
2
|
|
Canada
|
2
|
|
Japan
|
1
|
|
Turkey
|
2
|
|
Malaysia
|
40
|
|
Iran
|
6
|
|
Bangladesh
|
10
|
|
India
|
4
|
|
Indonesia
|
3
|
|
Singapore
|
1
|
|
Philippine
|
1
|
|
Qatar
|
1
|
|
China
|
1
|
|
Nigeria
|
1
|
