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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.