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General Science Ranking (GSR): An Open-Source, Citation-Normalized Journal and Conference Classification System for Computer Science and Medicine

Zhikai Yu

GSR provides a free, open-source ranking system for journals and conferences in computer science and medicine that achieves substantial agreement with JCR.

arxiv:2605.17657 v1 · 2026-05-17 · cs.DL · cs.DB

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C1strongest claim

GSR provides a free, reproducible, field-normalized ranking system covering both journals and conferences, achieving 84 percent agreement with JCR in medicine and 71 percent in CS, with only 1.7 to 2.5 percent of CS conferences changing partitions under sensitivity analysis.

C2weakest assumption

The four indicators (FWCI, IF2, h5, citation CAGR) can be meaningfully combined into a single score without explicit weights or further validation, and the IF2 approximation calibrated on 1.41 million journal papers accurately represents conference impact.

C3one line summary

GSR builds a citation-normalized ranking for CS and medicine venues from open data, mixing FWCI, IF2, h5, and CAGR with fixed Q1-Q4 quotas and showing 71-84% agreement with JCR.

References

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[1] Why China needs to review its approach to research evaluation[J] 2025

[2] China’s journal ranking system stands up to scrutiny[J] 2025

[3] China discontinues prominent journal ranking list[J] 2026

[4] A new approach to the metric of journals’ scientific prestige: The SJR indicator[J] 2010

[5] CiteScore metrics: Creating journal metrics from the Scopus citation index 2018 · arXiv:1812.06871

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arxiv: 2605.17657 · arxiv_version: 2605.17657v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.17657 · pith_short_12: SITNY7LRGPPD · pith_short_16: SITNY7LRGPPDJ3ZC · pith_short_8: SITNY7LR

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