Protocol: Is there agreement or disagreement between the absolute and relative impact indices obtained from the Web of Science and Scopus data?

This protocol justifies the relevance of the research questions that will be posed in future research that will address whether there are differences between the classifications of scientific journals depending on the impact factor indicators that are used: WoS (JCR ), and Scopus (CiteScore and SJR) and, if any, to what may be due. At the same time, the process to be followed to capture and analyze the data that will allow us to respond to the stated objectives is described in detail. Finally, the results of a pilot analysis focused on the 21 top journals of International Human Resources Management according to Caligiuri (1999) are presented. In it, we can verify that the correlation between JCR and CiteScore is practically perfect and that the quartiles of Scopus represent in a much more appropriate way than those of JCR the classification of these 21 as top journals of the category. It is still pending to carry out the complete investigation to verify if these results are generalizable to the field of economic and business sciences in global or to other sub-areas of this field.