What does Relative Citation Ratio (RCR) mean?

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Arwa Abdulrasoul Salman

I am waiting the answers eagerly. I do not have any idea indeed.

Isam Issa Omran

The National Institutes of Health have developed a new metric called the Relative Citation Ratio for measuring the influence of a scientific paper.

I think that RCR is an alternative to JIF,

Ali Akbar Khasseh

Dear Emad,

These articles contain good information about this metric:

Hutchins, B. I., Yuan, X., Anderson, J. M., & Santangelo, G. M. (2016). Relative Citation Ratio (RCR): A new metric that uses citation rates to measure influence at the article level. PLoS biology, 14(9), e1002541.

Bornmann, L., & Haunschild, R. (2017). Relative Citation Ratio (RCR): an empirical attempt to study a new field‐normalized bibliometric indicator. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 68(4), 1064-1067.