Using Scopus’s CiteScore for Assessing the Quality of Computer Science Conferences
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In Computer sciences, research findings tend to be published in conference papers, while books and text-books are more important sources in social sciences and even more so in humanities.
“For example, it is well known that, in Computer sciences, the research findings tend to be published in conference papers [86,87], while books and text-books are more important sources in social sciences and even more so in humanities [26,46].”
From Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus: The Titans of Bibliographic Information in Today’s Academic World (2021) · cites this paper as [86]
Only conferences published in journals or book series may be indexed in JCR and receive JIF values.
“Only conferences that were published in the journals or books series may be indexed in JCR and receive JIF values [86].”
From Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus: The Titans of Bibliographic Information in Today’s Academic World (2021) · cites this paper as [86]
Scopus calculates CS for only a minor part of indexed conference material sources; separate conferences and those published as special journal issues or part of book series do not receive CS metrics.
“Scopus only calculates CS for a minor part of indexed conference material sources. For instance, separate conferences and ones published as a special journal issues or part of book series do not receive CS metrics [86].”
From Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus: The Titans of Bibliographic Information in Today’s Academic World (2021) · cites this paper as [86]
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Self-citationRelative status of journal and conference publications in computer science
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CiteScore: A Cite for Sore Eyes, or a Valuable, Transparent Metric?
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- Authors
- Meho, L. I.
- Affiliations
- American University of Beirut (LB)
- Corresponding author
- Meho, Lokman I.
- ORCID
- Meho, Lokman I.
- Venue
- Journal of Informetrics
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2019-02
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 419-433
- ISSN
- 1751-1577 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2918024231
- Cited by
- 101
- References
- 19
- Citations by year
- 2026: 8 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 17 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 27 · 2021: 18 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 1
- FWCI
- 8.89
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Informetrics (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › scientometrics and bibliometrics research
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Web visibility and informetrics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Psychology Research and Bibliometrics
- Keywords
- CiteScore, computer science conferences, Scopus, bibliometric indicators, journal rankings, indexing practices
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