CiteScore-Based Quartiles for Scientometric Analysis
- Mohammad R. Khosravi ,
- Varun G. Menon
Abstract
This study intends to review and discuss some topics around CiteScore as
a new citation impact indicator of Scopus. Qualitative analysis of
journals based on scientometric indicators has been usual and is a good
way of rapid evaluation of them. Here, we use them to reach a
conclusion. We believe that reliability of CiteScore-based quartile is
more and this index is preferred because in comparison to IF-based
quartile, there are some reasons of preference of CS. In addition,
CiteScore can provide a more natural perception on citations comparing
with SJR-based quartile. Outcome of this study can be considered as a
proof that both types of SJR- and CiteScore-based quartiles should not
be assumed as baseline of quality evaluations at the same time.