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The Eigenfactor Metrics
Free resource that provides Eigenfactor scores and Article Influence scores.
Google Scholar
Free resource that contains citation counts for individual articles.
Google Scholar Metrics
Free resource that contains top publications by h5-index.
Journal Citation Reports
Journal Citation Reports (or JCR) is a product of Clarivate Analytics and is an authoritative resource for impact factor data. This database provides impact factors and rankings of many journals in the social and life sciences based on millions of citations. It offers numerous sorting options including impact factor, total cites, total articles, and immediacy index. In addition, JCR provides a five-year impact factor and visualized trend data.
Measuring a Journal's Impact
SCImago Journal Rank (SJR).
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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.