CiteScore is a new journal ranking metric launched by Elsevier in 2016. It provides annual citation counts for articles published in a journal over the previous three years to allow for comparison across disciplines. CiteScore determines the overall performance of a journal based on approximately 22,000 sources in the Scopus database, but does not predict the performance of individual articles. It is one way to measure journal impact and rank, though it may be biased as it was created by a publisher.

1. CiteScore
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2. Presented By Group C
Roll : 35-51
36) Md. Mukhlechur Rahman
37) Md. Mehedi Hasan
38) Md. Toffazzal Hossain
39) Abeda Parvin
40) Tapos Roy
41) Uzzal Kumar
42) Md. Shorif Hossain
43) Md. Azizur rahman
45) Md. Rezwanul Islam
47) Sirajam Munira
48)Md. Muhaiminul Islam
49) Rakib Hossain
50) Md. Anayet kobir
51 ) Md. Omor Faruk
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3. Introduction
CiteScore is a brand new product of a major publisher
of journal which is Elsevier. It has been launched in
December 2016 by Elsevier to rank its own journals.
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5. Focused points of CiteScore
There are several focused items which are important to
know about CiteScore….
1) CiteScore is based on raw citations counts, comparing
it in different disciplines of journals.
2) It provides, to compare journals across subject areas, a
CiteScore percentage and Citescore rank ( highest
rank is 100 & lowest rank beginning from 1) .
3) The annual cite score covers published articles in
previous three years.
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6. Focused points of CiteScore
4) CiteScore determines the overall performance of a
journal, not predict the performance of any
individual articles within journal.
5) CiteScore uses approxmately 22,000 journals,
Conference papers and reviews indexed in the
Scopus database as its data source.
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7. Indicator of CiteScore…
 CiteScore is a family of 8 indicators. These are
below….
CiteScore, CiteScore Tracker, CiteScore
Percentile, CiteScore Quartiles, CiteScore Rank,
Citation count , Document count, Percentage cited.
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8. How to calculate Citescore…
 CiteScore is calculated on an annual basis, showing the average
citations for a full calendar year by all types of published documents
in that journal in the preceding three years.
 It is calculated by dividing such as
x = numbers of all published documents in a journal
during preceding three years.
y= citations of those documents in 3 years.
CiteScore = ( Y/X)
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9. Example
 For example , 2016-2014 documents number 50 and citation
number is 355.
now,
we can show what is Cite score of this journal in 2017
2017 =( Y/X )
= ( 355/50)
= 7.1 is the journal impact in 2017.
Here , y = citation of documents = 355
x= number of total documents = 50
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10. Sample of calculation CiteScore…
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11. Limitations ….
There are two major limitations of CiteScore in ranking journal
impact. Includes in below ….
1) Inclusion of content such as letters and editorials can dilute the
result .
2) Possibility of biasness since this metric has been devised by a
scholarly publisher, Elsevier. Because, there are also other journal
ranking factor like – JIF( journal impact factor), Eignefactor,
ERIH Plus, Google scholar, Harzing, SJR, SNIP.
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12. Bullets Point
 CiteScore is one way to measure the journal impact
in research area for identifying the rank of the
journal. Though it makes biasness, also popular cite
to rank journal taking data from Scopus database.
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