Controversial Impact Factor Gets a Heavyweight Rival

Dec 8, 2016, 11:11 AM by Michael Croft

Nature News & Comment | On December 8, Elsevier launched the CiteScore Index, a new way to assess the quality of academic journals. Elsevier's CiteScore uses a larger database - and provides different results than the Journal Impact Factor.

December 08, 2016 | On December 8, Elsevier launched the CiteScore Index, a new way to assess the quality of academic journals. Elsevier's CiteScore uses a larger database - and provides different results than the Journal Impact Factor. Nature News & Comment