What is the CiteScore corrections process?

The CiteScore correction process must occur by the end of February for the year of CiteScore release or within six weeks after the yearly CiteScore release. The CiteScore metric values are released in June every year and only most recent annual value of CiteScore can be re-calculated. Historical values and past CiteScore values cannot be re-calculated.

Correction requests before the annual CiteScore release

The annual CiteScore metrics are released in June of each year. Feedback about journal subject area, publisher name, ISSN, and document count (denominator) is due by the end of February.

Upon request, we will provide the last four months of CiteScore Tracker metrics and the last 2 years of CiteScore annual values, including the years’ document counts. This information provides an indication as to whether it needs correcting before the annual calculation. As an example, for CiteScore 2016, around 90% of the document counts recording in February were identical to the numbers recorded in the final June metrics. This means that the denominator values available with the February CiteScore Tracker metrics should be very close, if not identical to the final figure for the annual calculation.

Ideally, these changes are made before the annual release:

• Publisher name
• Subject classification (ASJC)
• Denominator (unless there is a difference between February and June)

Correction requests after the annual CiteScore release

You have six weeks to provide any feedback if you believe the current year CiteScore metrics are incorrect. Note that you can only provide feedback on the current CiteScore year, and this feedback is preferably sent by one contact per publisher.

For citation feedback, the citing documents must have been in Scopus before the June CiteScore release.