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Tracking Your Publications

What are Bibliometrics?

Bibliometrics is a way of analyzing scholarly books, articles, and other publications. These analyses are used to track the output and impact of authors or researchers.

Types of Metrics

Article Level Metrics

Citation Counts
Altmetrics

Author Level Metrics

h-index
Citation Counts

Journal Level Metrics

Impact Factor
5-Year Journal Impact Factor
Immediacy Index
Cited Half-Life
Eigenfactor Score
SCImago Journal Rank
Impact per Publication
Source Normalized Impact per Paper

What metrics are used to evaluate the influence of research?

Citation Count The number of times an article is cited by other works.	Impact Factor Journal citation metric published in ISI's Journal Citation Reports database.
Altmetrics Captures references to scholarly output from non-traditional, web-based sources.	h-index Metric that provides a measure of author productivity and impact.