Technical Terms around article publishing: A brief list
When developing your publication strategy, you may come across the following terms:
SNIP
Source-Normalised Impact per Paper (SNIP)
- It is a sophisticated metric used to evaluate the contextual citation impact of scholarly journals across different subject areas.
- SNIP adjusts for variations in citation patterns across disciplines.
CiteScore
What is CiteScore?
- CiteScore is calculated by Scopus, a comprehensive abstract and citation database.
- It assesses the citation impact of journals by considering the total number of citations received by articles published in a specific journal over a certain period.
Journal Ranking
Quartile of journal
- In the context of scholarly journals, quartiles are based on the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) or CiteScore.
- Quartiles divide journals into four groups based on their impact within a category. 25% of journals are in each group.
- Scopus and Web of Science are the two main ranking databases we use, neither of which indexes ALL journals, only a subsection.
Quartile Ranks:
- Here’s how quartiles are defined:
- Q1: Highest ranked journals in a category
- Q2: Moderately high-ranked journals
- Q3: Moderately low-ranked journals
- Q4: Lowest ranked journals in a category.
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