Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, has announced that it is endorsing the Leiden Manifesto for Research Metrics, ten principles that guide best practice in metrics-based research assessment.
The Leiden Manifesto is a set of practical and action-oriented recommendations for those engaged in the evaluation of research, whether in the role of evaluator, those being evaluated, or those responsible for designing and delivering research metrics and indicators. Elsevier, working through its recently-launched International Center for the Study of Research (ICSR), will now strive to develop its research evaluation tools and services aligned with the recommendations of the Leiden Manifesto.
The Leiden Manifesto is a distillation of best practice in research assessment. Abiding by the ten principles means that research evaluation can play an important role in the development of research and its interactions with society.
2019 CiteScoreTM Metrics were announced on June 23, 2020, the latest assessment of thousands of peer-reviewed research journals, book series, conference proceedings and trade publications covered in Scopus. In addition, an improved calculation methodology was introduced to provide a more robust, fair and faster indicator of research impact. CiteScore Metrics already align with Leiden Manifesto Principles by being clear (Principle 4 – methodology is simple and easy to understand); transparent (Principle 5 – the data are freely available for verification purposes); and offered as a suite of indicators (Principle 9 – the CiteScore Metrics suite, offered alongside two other journal citation metrics). The revision of the calculation methodology embodies Principle 10 (scrutinise indicators regularly and update them) and in the improved approach CiteScore values are now rounded to one decimal place to avoid false precision (Principle 8).
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