h-indexes, Journal Impact Factors and CiteScores are often presented as a single numeric value, without providing any context. Under such circumstances, the reader is unable to fully appreciate, or comprehend, the information being presented. By not being transparent, it also presents the opportunity for unscrupulous operators, such as predatory journals, to provide non-sensical information in the hope that the potential author will misinterpret it and submit an article in the expectation that they are submitting to a high-quality journal. Dubious metrics are also able to enter the sector, again in the hope that their metric will be read under an incorrect assumption. Following an overview of the main metrics that are commonly used, this paper suggests how these metrics should be cited. Adopting these proposals would not only provide the reader will full information but also enable bogus measures, which have proliferated in recent years, to be recognized more easily.

h 指数、期刊影响因子和 CiteScore 通常显示为单个数值，而不提供任何上下文。在这种情况下，读者无法完全理解或理解所呈现的信息。由于不透明，它还为不道德的经营者（例如掠夺性期刊）提供了机会，提供无意义的信息，希望潜在的作者会误解它并提交一篇文章，期望他们提交给高水平的作者。质量期刊。可疑的指标也能够进入该领域，再次希望他们的指标能够在错误的假设下被解读。在概述了常用的主要指标之后，本文提出了如何引用这些指标的建议。采用这些建议不仅可以为读者提供完整的信息，而且还可以使近年来激增的虚假措施更容易被识别。