Using bibliometric tools
Traditional impact measures are based around citations, and can be used to ascertain:
- Quality of the journal
- Quality of the paper
- Quality of the author
- Quality of the Research Centre/Department/University
What shapes the citing of academic publications – Shows variation in citation rates across disciplines.
Bibliometric tools:
- SCImago – Journal Rankings (free resource) – quartile rankings for journals in each discipline category
- Scopus – gives citation counts on journal articles and calculates an h-index for authors
- Web of Science – gives citation counts on journal articles and calculates an h-index for authors
- JCR (Journal Citation Reports) – gives impact factors for journals
- Google Scholar – gives citation counts on journal articles and through My Citations can calculate an h-index; also gives journal rankings using an h-index through Google Scholar Metrics
Other sources:
- Research Analytics from Thomson Reuters
- Publish or Perish
Criticisms:
- The Impact Factor and Its Discontents: Reading list on controversies and shortcomings of the Journal Impact Factor
- San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment
- The Impact Factor: Past its Expiry Date
- SJR & SNIP versus IMPACT FACTOR
- Comparing the Google Scholar h-index with the ISI Journal Impact Factor
Author Identity
- ORCID
- Researcher ID
- Authorship Guidelines (Harvard)