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	Title	CiteScore	Highest CiteScore Percentile	CiteScore Rank	Citations 2016	Documents 2013-15	% Cited	SNIP	SJR

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CiteScore 2016 methodology

CiteScore 2016 counts the citations received in 2016 to documents published in 2013, 2014 or 2015, and divides this by the number of documents published in 2013, 2014 and 2015.

Citations in 2016


	Documents from 3 years

2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017

3-year publication window

The 3-year CiteScore time window was chosen as a best fit for all subject areas. Research shows that a 3-year publication window is long enough to capture the citation peak of the majority of disciplines.

Frequency

	CiteScore	CiteScore Tracker (on Scopus.com)
Calculated	Annually	12 times per year
Updates	None	Monthly

Document types

All types of documents (research articles, review articles, conference proceedings, editorials errata, letters, notes, and short surveys) are included in the CiteScore calculation. Although articles in press are included in Scopus they are not included in the calculation.

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Subject areas

Defined by the All Science Journal Classification codes in Scopus. Titles can be indexed in multiple subject areas. Filter your list using one or more subject areas.

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Year

6 years of CiteScore metrics are available (2011 – 2016).

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Source Types

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Quartiles

Choose one or multiple quartiles. Top 10% = titles with CiteScore Percentiles from the 99th – 90th. Quartile 1 = 99th – 75th CiteScore Percentile, which also includes the Top 10% titles. Quartile 2 = 74th – 50th CiteScore Percentile. Quartile 3 = 49th – 25th CiteScore Percentile. Quartile 4 = 24th – 0 CiteScore Percentile.

Open access

Journals covered by Scopus are indicated as Open Access if the journal is listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and/or the Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources (ROAD).

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CiteScore

CiteScore measures average citations received per document published in the serial. CiteScore 2016 methodology

CiteScore Percentile

CiteScore Percentile indicates the relative standing of a serial title in its subject field.

A serial that has a CiteScore Percentile of 96% is ranked according to CiteScore as high or higher than 96% of titles in that category. A title will receive a CiteScore Percentile for each subject area in which it’s indexed in Scopus.

Highest CiteScore Percentile

Indicates the highest CiteScore Percentile for this title from all of the subject areas in which it’s categorized.

CiteScore Rank

Indicates the rank position of the title in its subject area. A title will receive a CiteScore Rank for each subject area in which it’s indexed in Scopus.

Citations (2016)

Citations received in one year (e.g. 2016) for the documents published in the previous 3 years (e.g. 2013 – 15).

Documents (2013-15)

Sum of documents published in the serial title in the 3 years prior to the year the metric.

Percent of Documents Cited (%)

The proportion of the documents (e.g. 2013 – 15) that have received at least 1 citation (e.g. 2016).

SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper)

Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) measures actual citations received relative to citations expected for the serial's subject field.

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

SCImago Journal Rank measures weighted citations received by the serial. Citation weighting depends on subject field and prestige (SJR) of the citing serial.

Snowball Metrics

Citation counts and Document counts are Snowball Metrics, which have been endorsed by research-focused institutions as important in benchmarking performance.

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