Measuring your Scholarly Impact: Home
Your research has an impact. Find out who is citing and using your research.
Scholarly Impact
Scholarly impact can be determined many ways, but some of the most common ways relate to one of three areas. Click the links to find more information.
- Author metrics are any quantitative measurement of a particular author's impact or influence. A well-known author metric is the H-index, described below.
- Article-level metrics most often measure the impact or influence of a particular journal article.
- Journal-level metrics offer a way to measure the overall impact and sometimes prestige of a journal.
Common tools to find metrics
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Web of ScienceWeb of Science shows citation data for any specific article, and using its profile tools, you can aggregate citation info for a single author or group of authors.
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Google ScholarContains citation information for specific articles or other items. Build a profile to gather citation info for all your output in a single place.
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Harzing's Publish or PerishSoftware that searches Google Scholar, CrossRef, Web of Science, and others.
Scholarly Communication Librarian & Science Research Librarian
Jeff Bond
Contact:
Library 2015, right next to Research Support Desk
817-257-7107