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Publishing & Measuring Scholarly Work

Research Impact (Author, Article, and Journal Impact)

Research Impact  measures the influence or importance of an author, article or academic journal. Resources listed below enable one to explore (1) author impact (citation analysis - comparing total # of the author's academic publications to the number of times these publications have been cited by other researchers), (2) article impact (tracking how an article is being used, shared, and discussed.and measure it's influence, and (3) Journal impact (measures which journal has influence as well as see publication and citation trends in a topic area).

Google Scholar Metrics

Summarizes recent citations to many publications, to help authors as they consider where to publish their new research.Three metrics are provided: the h-index, the i-10 index ( the number of articles with at least ten citations), and the total number of citations to your articles.

Google Scholar Citations

In July 2011 Google introduced Google Scholar Citations: "a simple way for authors to compute their citation metrics and track them over time". Check it out and get started Tracking your citations and articles

Citation data collected from: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED); Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI); Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI); Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Science (CPCI-S); Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH)

Scopus

Delivering a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, Scopus features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. Learn more about Scopus Journal Metrics, Author Metrics, & Article-level Metrics

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 the metrics such as: # of papers, # of citations, Average citations per paper, citations per author, Hirsch's h-index, Egghe's g-index, etc.
ResearchGate

Journal Rankings

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