Guides: Assessing Research Impact: Tools to Meaure Impact

Author Impact

H-Index
The most widely used research metric, measures, productivity and impact of an author's scholarly output. Scopus and Google Scholar will calculate H-index.
G-Index
An index for quantifying scientific productivity based on publication record; from Leo Egghe (2006). "It can be equivalently defined as the largest number n of highly cited articles for which the average number of citations is at least n."
i10-Index
Indicates the number of academic publications an author has written that have been cited at least 10 times by others. It was introduced in July 2011 as part of Google Scholar
Faculty of 1000
A directory to the top articles in biology and medicine, as recommended by over 5,000 expert scientists and clinical researchers.

* For additional author level metrics, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Author-level_metrics

Article Impact

Cited reference searching can be used to find out if an article, book, journal, or particular author has been cited by another work.

Google Scholar
Use Advanced Search (located under the menu option on top left), and enter the author's name in the appropriate field, and click search. Look for 'Cited By' number beneath each citation.
Publish or Perish
Publish or Perish is a software program that retrieves and analyzes academic citations. It uses Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic Search to obtain the raw citations, then analyzes these and presents results.
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PubMed comprises more than 29 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Items that have been cited include a "Cited By" section.
Scopus
In the search box, use the article title. The 'Cited by' column on the right contains number of times the article has been cited within Scopus.
SNIP
Source-Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) measures the impact of a paper within a subject field.

Journal Impact

Journal rankings and impact factors are quantitative measures for evaluating the performance of a journal in its field. Measuring journal impact is not an exact science and should be used with an understanding of its limitations and challenges.

CiteScore Metrics - CiteScore is based on the number of citations received in previous 4 years to 5 peer-reviewed document types (articles, reviews, conference papers, data papers, and book chapters) by a journal in the same four years, divided by the number peer-reviewed documents indexed in Scopus and published in those same four years.

Eigenfactor and Article Influence -eigenfactor.org ranks the influence of journals and articles much as Google’s PageRank algorithm ranks the influence of web pages. By this approach, journals are considered to be influential if they are cited often by other influential journals

Journal Citation Reports (JCR) (Subscription access/not available at WPI) -Evaluates and compares journals using citation data drawn from the Web of Knowledge/Web of Science scholarly and technical journals. Shows most frequently cited and highest impact journals in a given field.

SJR (SCImago Journal and Country Rank) - Portal that includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus® database. These indicators can be used to assess and analyze scientific domains

SNIP - SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper ) uses Scopus data and measures contextual citation impact by weighting citations based on the total number of citations in a subject field. "SNIP therefore measures contextual citation impact and enables direct comparison of journals in different subject fields, since the value of a single citation is greater for journals in fields where citations are less likely, and vice versa."