This index was proposed by Cox & Snell (1989, pp. 208-9) and,
  apparently independently, by Magee (1990); but had been suggested earlier
  for binary response models by Maddala (1983). However, this index achieves
  a maximum of less than 1 for discrete models (i.e. models whose likelihood
  is a product of probabilities) which have a maximum of 1, instead of
  densities, which can become infinite (Nagelkerke, 1991).