From: Ann Shumelda Okerson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 20:34:00 -0500

[OF WIDE INTEREST]

From Nature, December 8, 2016

Elsevier’s CiteScore uses a larger database — and provides different
results for the quality of journals.

By Richard Van Noorden

"One of science’s most contentious metrics has a flashy new rival. On
8 December, publishing giant Elsevier launched the CiteScore index to
assess the quality of academic journals.

"Although the index ranks journals with a formula that largely mimics
the influential Journal Impact Factor (JIF), it covers twice as many
journals — 22,000 to the JIF’s 11,000 — and its formula includes
tweaks that produce some notably different results, including lower
scores for some high-JIF journals."

http://www.nature.com/news/controversial-impact-factor-gets-a-heavyweight-rival-1.21131?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews

See also from Elsevier:

"In response to academia’s call for metrics that provide a broader,
more transparent view of an academic journal’s1 citation impact,
Scopus has developed a set of metrics that are free to access and easy
to calculate. CiteScoreTM metrics are comprehensive, transparent and
current and help to analyze where research is published. They reveal
the citation impact of over 22,000 academic journals in 330
disciplines."

https://www.elsevier.com/connect/new-metrics-will-make-journal-assessment-more-complete-and-transparent?sf45488408=1