Scientific Communication & EducationbioRxiv
Relative Citation Ratio (RCR): A new metric that uses citation rates to measure influence at the article level
Bruce Ian Hutchins, Xin Yuan, James M Anderson, George M Santangelo
The paper introduces a new citation metric, Relative Citation Ratio, to measure article influence independently of field and journal impact factors.
DOI 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002541