SCImago explain on their website that the ranking is based on the research of experts in the area that focus on many criteria, such as the main focus of the published news, whether the newspapers are focused, for example, in sports, economic or general news. The “Cybermedia with a national-global, regional and ‘glocal’ projection”, focuses on the geographic coverage of the news.


After the research, newspapers are ranked through four indicators, valuing 25% each for the final score.

The Portuguese ranking

Besides ranking more than four thousand newspapers, SCImago also has national rankings based on the online work of each newspaper.

Público, Correio da Manhã and A Bola occupy the Top 3 as the Portuguese newspapers with the greatest online presence.

The Top 5 of the best Portuguese newspapers close with Record and Jornal de Negócios, a Sports and a Finance newspaper, respectively.

The Portugal News appears in 6th place, in the 2024 Spring Edition, highlighting the availability of General News in 18 languages, being also in 690th place as one of the best newspapers in the world.

The General News newspapers, occupy most of the places from 7th to 15th place, with IOL right under The Portugal News, followed by Diário de Notícias da Madeira and Jornal de Notícias. Observador is ranked in 10th place, followed by Expresso and Diário de Notícias. The 13th place is occupied by Notícias ao Minuto, followed by another newspaper from one of the Portuguese islands, but this time the Azores, with Açoriano Oriental. The Top 15 closes with a Sports newspaper, O Jogo.

Author

Deeply in love with music and with a guilty pleasure in criminal cases, Bruno G. Santos decided to study Journalism and Communication, hoping to combine both passions into writing. The journalist is also a passionate traveller who likes to write about other cultures and discover the various hidden gems from Portugal and the world. Press card: 8463. 

Bruno G. Santos