Subject Guides: Research Impact: Measuring Your Impact

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Levels of Impact

H-Index
The most widely used research metric, measures, productivity and impact of an author's scholarly output. Tools for calculating your H-index include Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar
G-Index
An index for quantifying scientific productivity based on publication record; it was suggested in 2006 by Leo Egghe.
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 by Google as part of Google Scholar
M-quotient
While the h-index is independent of the date of an academic's career, the m-quotient aims at weighing the period of academic endeavor so that even junior scientists attain the importance that they deserve.
Faculty of 1000
A directory to the top articles in biology and medicine, as recommended by over 5,000 expert scientists and clinical researchers.

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
On the right side of the search box, click the arrow to open Advanced Search. Enter the author's name in the appropriate field, and click search. In the search results, locate the '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.
PubMed
Web of Science
Click on the down arrow to the right of 'Basic Search' and select 'Cited Reference Search'. Enter the title of the article. The number is the number of times the article has been sited in the journals that the Web of Knowledge covers.

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)
Evaluates and compares journals using citation data drawn from the Web of Knowledge 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

Altmetrics Directory
Directory of tools to measure alternative forms of research impact metrics.
ImpactStory
An open-source, web-based tool that helps researchers explore and share the diverse impacts of all their research products—from traditional ones like journal articles, to emerging products like blog posts, datasets, and software.
Plum Analytics
This service aims to provide a more comprehensive measure of scholarly impact by gathering data about usage of data sets, open access publications, presentations, blogs and other types of scholarly communication.

Bibliometrics are the use of quantiative tools to study publications and other written materials

Citation metrics focus on the statistical patterns and measurements of citations

Citation analysis can be used as a quantifiable measure of academic output and research impact, which can help inform decisions on publication, promotion, and tenure

Altmetrics is the creation and study of new metrics based on the Social Web for analyzing, and informing scholarship