CiteScore-Based Quartiles for Scientometric Analysis of Computer Science and Communications Journals: The Essentiality

Abstract

This paper addresses the essentiality and importance of CiteScore as the most recent Scopus indicator to evaluate periodical publications in the area of computer science and communications (CSC), indexed and abstracted by Scopus (mainly including journals and magazines). Currently, the old indicator of Scopus, SJR (through Scimago journal report), is the most common way of calculating scientometric quartiles through Scopus. The study shows that CiteScore is the best alternative of SJR to find Scopus-related quartiles for the CSC publications. In fact, it may be the best rival for the IF-based quartiles (as the representative of WoS), at least for the CSC journals.