A group from the National Institute of Health's Office of Portfolio Analysis has developed a original 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, or it does overcome many of the issues plaguing preceding metrics. In a Meta-Research Article publishing on September 6 in the Open Access journal,PLOS Biology, George Santangelo and colleagues describe RCR, or which measures the influence of a scientific publication in a way that is article-level and field-independent.
Source: phys.org