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