Information products and services provider Elsevier has launched CiteScoreTM metrics in Scopus, the world's largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, providing the scholarly community free access to comprehensive metrics for journals from over 5,000 publishers. The new set of metrics will improve decisions on where to publish, which journals to subscribe to and when to adjust a journal's editorial strategy.
CiteScore metrics comprise a variety of indicators, making them part of a basket of metrics that provides a more balanced view of journal quality than one indictor alone would. The basket of metrics includes the annual CiteScore metrics, a monthly CiteScore Tracker, CiteScore Rank, CiteScore Quartile and CiteScore Percentile. In addition, it includes the indicators SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper) and SJR (SCImago Journal Rank). The integration of these metrics into Scopus provides insight into the citation performance of over 22,200 journals, twice as many as those that have an Impact Factor – currently the de facto metric used to assess journal quality.
Several publishers have been invited to get involved and review the metrics for their journals.
CiteScore metrics provide transparency as to how they are calculated through easy access to the underlying articles in Scopus with a single click. A number of the CiteScore metrics are updated on a monthly basis, allowing timely performance tracking of a journal. In addition, CiteScore metrics are accessible for free and available for all regularly publishing literature in Scopus, including conference proceedings.
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