Abstract
This study intends to review and discuss some topics around CiteScore
(here abbreviated as CS) which is a new citation impact indicator of
Scopus. Qualitative analysis of journals based on scientometric
indicators has been usual and is a good way of rapid evaluation of them.
Here, we use them to reach a conclusion. We believe that reliability of
CiteScore-based quartile is more and this index is preferred because in
comparison to IF-based quartile, there are some reasons of preference of
CS. In addition, CS can provide a more natural perception on citations
compared to SJR-based quartile computation. The result of this study can
be considered as a proof that both types of SJR- and CiteScore-based
quartiles should not be assumed as baseline of quality evaluations at
the same time.