Research Guides: Research Impact: Author and Article Metrics

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Library Sources

Web of Science
Multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the sciences (Science Citation Index Expanded) as well as both the Social Sciences Citation Index and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Approximately 70% of the records have author abstracts. Online coverage from 1980 to present.
PlumX
PlumX gathers and brings together metrics (usage, captures, mentions, social media, and citations) for all types of scholarly research output.

Other Article Databases
Several journal databases the library subscribes to provide citation and metric information. Ebsco and ProQuest databases offer cited reference search options. Emerald Insight provides download numbers for articles.

External Sources

Academia.edu
A platform for academics to share research papers.
Google Scholar Citations
Provides a simple way for authors to keep track of citations to their articles. You can check who is citing your publications, graph citations over time, and compute several citation metrics.
Impactstory
An open-source, web-based tool that helps researchers explore and share the diverse impacts of all their research products--traditional ones like journal articles, but also alternative products like blog posts, datasets, and software.
Kudos
Helps researchers increase the visibility and impact of their publications.
Mendeley
A free reference manager and academic social network. For each article the number of Mendeley users that have added the article to their Mendeley library is shown.
PLOS-ALM
Article-Level metrics for every article published by PLOS (Public Library of Science) .
ResearchGate
A social networking site for scientists and researchers to share papers, ask and answer questions, and find collaborators.

Resource Tools

Altmetric Bookmarklet
Web Browser bookmarklet for viewing altmetrics of an article.
Free DOI lookup (by Crossref)
Find the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for online publications.
Ranking Web of Repositories
A list of repositories throughout the world.