A new article-level metric, the Relative Citation Ratio, provides an alternative to the use of journal impact factors as a means of identifying influential papers.
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%1 hutchins2016relative
%A Hutchins, B. Ian
%A Yuan, Xin
%A Anderson, James M.
%A Santangelo, George M.
%D 2016
%I Public Library of Science
%J PLOS Biology
%K altmetrics bibliometrics citation impact metric ratio rcr research scientometrics
%N 9
%P 1--25
%R 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002541
%T Relative Citation Ratio (RCR): A New Metric That Uses Citation Rates to Measure Influence at the Article Level
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1002541
%V 14
%X A new article-level metric, the Relative Citation Ratio, provides an alternative to the use of journal impact factors as a means of identifying influential papers.
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abstract = {A new article-level metric, the Relative Citation Ratio, provides an alternative to the use of journal impact factors as a means of identifying influential papers.},
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author = {Hutchins, B. Ian and Yuan, Xin and Anderson, James M. and Santangelo, George M.},
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pages = {1--25},
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timestamp = {2016-11-22T15:46:23.000+0100},
title = {Relative Citation Ratio (RCR): A New Metric That Uses Citation Rates to Measure Influence at the Article Level},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1002541},
volume = 14,
year = 2016
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