
Scopus Snip
About
- http://www.scopus.com/home.url also freely available at http://info.scopus.com/journalmetrics
- Citation practices can vary significantly from one field to another. For example, articles in biochemistry often contain over 50 cited references, while a typical mathematical paper has perhaps only 10. SNIP is an advanced citation indicator that corrects for such differences - in other words it normalises for subject differences.
Key metrics
- SNIP - Source Normalized Impact per Paper.
Distinctive features
- Measures contextual citation impact by ‘normalising’ citation values.
- Takes a research field’s citation frequency into account.
- Considers immediacy - how quickly a paper is likely to have an impact in a given field.
- Accounts for how well the field is covered by the underlying database.
- Calculates without use of a journal’s subject classification to avoid delimitation.
- Counters any potential for editorial manipulation.
- Both SNIP and SJR are integrated into the Scopus Journal Analyzer . This allows you to select up to 10 journals. Five comparative graphical representations of the journals are available: by SJR, SNIP, Citations (count), Documents (articles count) and % Not Cited.
More information
- More information is available at www.journalindicators.com
- Read the paper “Measuring contextual citation impact of scientific journals” by Henk. F. Moed http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0911/0911.2632.pdf
- View Henk F. Moed talking about SNIP at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE1dFFPRAoc (9’ 51”)
- For an explanation on how SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) are calculated visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YarFhyoqeA (5’ 52”)
- The Scopus Journal Analyzer tutorial is available at: http://help.scopus.com/flare/Content/tutorials/sc_AnalyzeJournals.html
My RI by University College Dublin, Dublin City University, Dublin Institute of Technology, The National University
of Ireland, Maynooth and the NDLR adapted by Marion Kelt, Glasgow Caledonian University is licensed
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Based on a work at http://www.ndlr.ie/myri/.