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posted on 2020-07-17, 14:36 authored by Mohammad R. KhosraviMohammad R. Khosravi, Varun G. MenonThis study intends to
review and discuss some topics around CiteScore (here abbreviated as CS) which
is 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, CS can provide a more natural perception on
citations compared to SJR-based quartile computation. The result 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.