Author: Paula Maria Escalona Doña

The Summer 2025 edition of the SCImago Media Rankings is now available, offering an updated snapshot of the global media landscape.

With more than 6,000 media outlets, including newspapers, television stations, digital natives, magazines, news agencies, and data from 190 countries and more than 30 languages, this platform reaffirms its position as one of the most comprehensive tools for analyzing media visibility and online reputation.

The SCImago Media Rankings not only establishes a global media ranking, but has also become a key tool for analyzing the digital information ecosystem. Thanks to its comparative approach, it identifies emerging trends, visibility dynamics, and changes in media positioning, providing valuable insight into the evolution of journalism in the digital age.

Its ranking is based on a series of objective indicators such as web traffic, SEO ranking, and domain authority, providing an effective and transparent methodology. The platform also allows for customized comparisons by country, media type, or level of digital impact, adapting to different analytical needs, both academic and professional.

At a time when media credibility, digital presence, and online influence are more important than ever, this new wave serves as an indispensable compass for those who want to understand how the world of information works.

Lluís Codina’s Quick Guide to Leveraging the SCImago Media Ranking

July 2, 2025July 1, 2025| News
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Professor and researcher Lluís Codina has published on his blog a quick and accessible guide on how to use the SCImago Media Rankings platform, a database that has become a key research tool for analyzing the online reputation of media outlets internationally.

This ranking offers up-to-date data on the digital performance of media outlets in more than 190 countries, positioning itself as a valuable resource for research related to journalism, communication, and digital audience measurement.

Codina’s new blog post explains, step by step, how to navigate the tool’s interface as well as how to interpret its indicators for academic or professional use. His blog has become a space dedicated to academic dissemination of research methodologies and media studies.

“However, what has been shown is merely the visible part of the true iceberg of structured data that the SMR places at the disposal of researchers, professionals, and media scholars. The possibilities for data exploitation and cross-referencing are, quite literally, unlimited and offer both global and local reach” Codina mentions.

The published guide is an excellent entry point for those who want to explore the potential of SCImago in studying the digital reputation of media outlets, in a context where indicators are increasingly relevant.