Questions about Research Impact:
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Overview - Measuring Impact
This guide brings together resources that provide measures of scholarly impact using both traditional metrics, such as journal impact factor and h-index, and emerging web-based alternatives, referred to as altmetrics, cybermetrics, and webometrics.
Article Impact
Use selected databases and publisher sites to collect citation counts for individual publications.
Journal Impact
For a journal, find impact factor, citable items, cited half-life, citing half-life and other journal-related metrics.
Researcher Impact
Find metrics, such as h-index, used to analyze and measure the impact of an author within a scholarly community.
Related Library Guides
Quick Links to Key Resources
- Web of ScienceArticle and author citation analytics.
- ScopusTimes cited and h-index, as well as SJR and SNIP from SCImago. Offers some Altmetric data.
- InCites Journal Citation Reports (JCR)Times cited, h-index, impact factor, citation half life, and Eigenfactor.
- InCites: Essential Science IndicatorsInfluential individuals, institutions, papers, publications, and countries in various fields.
- Google Scholar MetricsProvides h-index, h-core, h-median, as well as those figures for the last 5 completed calendar years (h5-index, h5-core, and h5-median)