The Elsevier (Scopus) CiteScore is an increasingly popular journal-based metric (JBM) that is rapidly gaining popularity over its once decades-dominant JBM, Clarivate Analytics’ Journal Impact Factor (JIF). CiteScore, which is currently assigned to over 41,000 Scopus-indexed journals or other sources, faces a risk that does not seem to have yet been discussed, namely its “hijacking” to create a copy-cat or misleading metric. The JIF is already famously suffering this phenomenon in “predatory” open access publishing, but predators in the realm of academic publishing are constantly seeking ways to expand their “prey” base, i.e., authors. The use of fake metrics, or copy-cat metrics, that give the impression of a famed JBM or other metric, like the JIF or CiteScore, are created in an attempt to lure unsuspecting academics—who might erroneously associate a metric as a “quality” parameter—to their journals. It would not be surprising to see the emergence of copy-cat CiteScore-like metrics emerging. Academics, editors and publishers need to be vigilant.

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CiteScore：抄袭、虚假和误导性指标的风险

Elsevier (Scopus) CiteScore 是一种日益流行的基于期刊的指标 (JBM)，在其一度占据主导地位的 JBM，即 Clarivate Analytics 的期刊影响因子 (JIF) 中迅速流行起来。CiteScore 目前分配给超过 41,000 种 Scopus 索引的期刊或其他来源，面临着似乎尚未讨论过的风险，即它“劫持”以创建模仿者或误导性指标。JIF 已经在“掠夺性”开放获取出版中遭受了这种现象，但学术出版领域的掠夺者一直在寻找扩大其“猎物”基础的方法，即作者。使用虚假指标或模仿指标，给人以著名的 JBM 或其他指标（如 JIF 或 CiteScore）的印象，创建它们的目的是为了吸引毫无戒心的学者（他们可能会错误地将指标与“质量”参数联系起来）加入他们的期刊。看到模仿 CiteScore 的指标的出现也就不足为奇了。学者、编辑和出版商需要保持警惕。