Relative Citation Ratio
The Relative Citation Ratio (RCR) is a new metric, recently endorsed by the National Institutes of Health. It is based on weighting the number of citations a paper receives to a comparison group within the same field.
The iCite tool may be used to generate RCR metrics for articles with PubMed IDs.
Paul Basken. (2016, September 7). Better Than Impact Factor? NIH Team Claims Key Advance in Ranking Journal Articles. The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved from http://www.chronicle.com/article/Better-Than-Impact-Factor-NIH/237703/
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 Biol, 14(9), e1002541. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002541