Controversial impact factor gets a heavyweight rival : Nature News & Comment

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Summary:

"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."

Link:

http://www.nature.com/news/controversial-impact-factor-gets-a-heavyweight-rival-1.21131

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Date tagged:

12/08/2016, 22:46

Date published:

12/08/2016, 17:46