Why is CiteScore important?

CiteScore metrics deliver greater insight into research impact and influence. Calculated using data from Scopus, CiteScore metrics help you evaluate journals, book series, conference proceedings and trade journals to empower well-informed decisions.

Is a higher CiteScore better?

CiteScore versus impact factor

A number greater than 1 indicates a higher CiteScore, and a number less than one indicates a higher Impact Factor.

What is a good CiteScore number?

CiteScore Percentile indicates the relative standing of a serial title in its subject field. A serial that has a CiteScore Percentile of 96% is ranked according to CiteScore as high or higher than 96% of titles in that category.

How do you interpret a CiteScore?

CiteScore is calculated on an annual basis, showing the average citations for a full calendar year. CiteScore Tracker calculation is updated every month, giving a current indication of a journal's performance.

What is the Impact Factor of a journal CiteScore?

CiteScore vs Journal Impact Factor

CiteScore includes all document types indexed by Scopus, include articles, reviews, letters, notes, editorials, conference papers, etc. while Impact Factor only includes "citable documents" which are articles and reviews.

What is CiteScore? A metric to Determined the Impact of a Journal

What is the highest CiteScore?

To compare journals across subject areas, CiteScore provides a CiteScore Percentile which normalizes the raw CiteScore within its subject area. The scale runs from 100 (highest rank) down to 1 (lowest rank).

Is 3.8 A good impact factor?

In general, an impact factor of 10 or higher is considered remarkable, while 3 is good, and the average score is less than 1. 🍍 Who invented the impact factor? Eugene Garfield, the founder of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), invented the measurement known as impact factor.

What is the average CiteScore?

The average CiteScore rank percentile of all MDPI journals is 65 (using an average percentile for journals which are listed in multiple categories), exceeding 65% of all the journals in Scopus.

What is an example of a CiteScore?

Let's say that a journal received 650 citations from 2013-2016 to papers it published during those same years. During that same period of time, the journal published a total of 100 papers. To calculate the CiteScore, we would divide 650 (total citations) by 100 (total papers). This gives us a CiteScore of 6.5.

What is CiteScore best quartile?

CiteScore* Best Quartile

This metric indicates a journal's ranking in its best performing category. How is it calculated? The highest ranking the journal has in a Scopus subject category. Quartile 1 (Q1) = the 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores in that category.

What is the difference between CiteScore and jif?

CiteScore includes all document types in the calculation, whereas the Journal Impact Factor calculates only “citable items”, such as articles and reviews. This is why CiteScore is usually lower than Impact factor. However, it is not necessary to compare two different metrics by their numbers.

What does CiteScore percentile mean?

CiteScore Percentile: indicates how a journal ranks relative to other journals in the same subject field. e.g., CiteScore Percentile of 98% means the journal is in the top 2% of its subject field.

What is the CiteScore metrics for journals?

CiteScore™ metrics are a new standard that help to measure journal citation impact. They are comprehensive, transparent, current and free metrics calculated using data from Scopus®, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature.

Why is CiteScore higher than impact factor?

Major difference between CiteScore and Journal Impact Factor: CiteScore calculation is based on Scopus data, while Impact Factor is based on Web of Science data. CiteScore uses a 3-year window while Impact Factor adopts a 2-year window. CiteScore is a means to measure the average citations for a journal.

What is a respectable impact factor?

In most fields, the impact factor of 10 or greater is considered an excellent score while 3 is flagged as good and the average score is less than 1.

What is the CiteScore of a paper?

CiteScore (CS) of an academic journal is a measure reflecting the yearly average number of citations to recent articles published in that journal. It is produced by Ebsco, based on the citations recorded in the Scopus database.

WHO publishes CiteScore?

Elsevier Journal Metrics Visualization.

What are good impact scores?

Impact scores run from 10 to 90, where 10 is best. Generally speaking, impact/priority scores of 10 to 30 are most likely to be funded; scores between 31 and 45 might be funded; scores greater than 46 are rarely funded.

What is a good citation percentile?

Outputs in top citation percentiles

This metric is calculated to show how many articles are in the top 1%, 5%, 10% or 25% of the most cited documents. 99th percentile is high and indicates an article ranks higher than 99% of articles, i.e. it is in the top 1% globally.

What is snip and SJR?

SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) is a metric based on the idea that 'all citations are not created equal'. With SJR, the subject field, quality and reputation of the journal has a direct effect on the value of a citation. See paper at http://arxiv.org/abs/0912.4141. SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper):

What is a good h-index after 30 years?

h index of 60 after 20 years, or 90 after 30 years, characterizes truly unique individuals.

Is 6.3 A good impact factor?

The top 5% of journals have impact factors approximately equal to or greater than 6 (610 journals or 4.9% of the journals tracked by JCR).

What makes a good journal?

Transparency from the journal as to its aim and scope, the editorial board, indexing status, the peer review process, reputation, and policies for authors are among the key indicators of quality journals. These criteria can help identify quality journals suitable for publication.