Table 5. Citations and documents before and after Scopus discontinuation.

Total number of documents	591968
Total number of citations	1152779
Documents per journal *	429 [159.5–1244] (2–132482)
	Before Scopus discontintinuation	After Scopus discontintinuation
Citations (n)	545518	607261
Citations per journal *	415 [120-1580] (0-67529)	713 [254-2056] (0-19468)
Citations per year *	51.75 [15.17- 144.3] (0- 2028)	152.9 [49.43-408] (0-4571)
Citations per document *	1 [0.39-2.15] (0-17.12)	1.66 [0.93-2.66] (0-80.70)

Data are reported as medians, interquartile ranges [IQRs] and ranges (minimum value – maximum value) unless otherwise specified. * No missing data. Analyses were conducted on all the 317 journals discontinued from Scopus.