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This letter to the Editor refers to the application of the h-core citations rate (HCR) indicator for the bibliometric assessment of scientific journals. A dataset of two hundred journals published by seven publishers in various fields of chemistry was analysed using HCR together with other common bibliometric characteristics, such as Impact factor (IF), SCImago journal rank (SJR), Article factor score (AIS) as well as h-index. HCR does not correlate with IF, SJR or AIS and decreases with the number of published papers. Hence, HCR is complementary to the mentioned metrics and seems to be suitable for journal assessment.
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Praus, P. HCR for assessment of scientific journals in chemistry. Scientometrics 122, 1237–1242 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-019-03322-6
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