CiteScore Metrics: Creating Journal Metrics from the Scopus Citation Index
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Key points: CiteScore was developed to implement familiar calculations but make them more comprehensive and transparent. The justification for a new metric was to complement existing information to allow for comparison and evaluation. CiteScore is available for all newly indexed journals with a publication history of 1 year. CiteScore Tracker is updated monthly to show progress towards the annual snapshot CiteScore. Feedback helps CiteScore develop, for example, by improving the management of title changes. CiteScore provided metrics for 23,350 journals in 2018.
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Scopus provides CiteScore, SJR, and SNIP.
“Meanwhile, Scopus provides CiteScore (CS) metrics, along with other, more advanced indicators-SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) [175].”
From Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus: The Titans of Bibliographic Information in Today’s Academic World (2021) · cites this paper as [175]
Due to the consistency between CS numerator and denominator, CS values are often lower than JIF values for the same journals.
“However, due to the consistency between CS numerator and denominator, the CS values would often be lower than the JIF values for the same journals [175].”
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CS has fundamental differences from JIF, mainly aimed at correcting the main limitations of JIF.
“However, there are some fundamental differences, mainly aimed at correcting the main limitations of JIF [175,231].”
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Scopus offers the CiteScore Tracker, representing trends of the upcoming source's CS value, calculated for the current citation year and updated monthly.
“Scopus also offers the CiteScore Tracker, representing the trends of upcoming source's CS value (similar to WoS Immediacy Index). It is calculated for the current (citation) year, rather than previous, complete years, and it is updated monthly [175].”
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CS and other Scopus journal metrics are calculated for all actively indexed serial sources within all disciplines, including books series, conference proceedings, and trade publications, if at least one document in the preceding three (currently, four) years was published.
“CS, as well as other Scopus journal metrics, is calculated for all actively indexed serial sources within all disciplines, including books series, conference proceedings, and trade publications, if at least one document in the preceding three (currently, four) years was published [175,258].”
From Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus: The Titans of Bibliographic Information in Today’s Academic World (2021) · cites this paper as [175]
After a journal is transferred from ESCI to JCR indexes, impact indicators are calculated only if the journal stays in the JCR index for three consecutive years.
“even after the journal is transferred from ESCI to JCR indexes, the impact indicators for a journal are calculated only if the journal manages to stay in the JCR index for three consecutive years [175].”
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- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Web visibility and informetrics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Publishing and Scholarly Communication
- Keywords
- CiteScore, journal metrics, Scopus, citation analysis, journal evaluation, bibliometric analysis, journal indexing
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