Relative Citation Ratio: Scientists publish new metric to measure the influence of scientific research
Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 13:21
in Psychology & Sociology
A group from the National Institute of Health's Office of Portfolio Analysis has developed a new metric, known as the Relative Citation Ratio (RCR), which will allow researchers and funders to quantify and compare the influence of a scientific article. While the RCR cannot replace expert review, it does overcome many of the issues plaguing previous metrics. In a Meta-Research Article publishing on September 6 in the Open Access journal, PLOS Biology, George Santangelo and colleagues describe RCR, which measures the influence of a scientific publication in a way that is article-level and field-independent.