Research Quality Advisory: Metrics

Journal Impact Factor and Journal Rank

• Google Scholar Metrics
  study the citation visibility and influence of an academic articles in scholarly publications
• Journal Citation Reports
  Thomson Reuters tool used for the analytics of citation and publication in academic journals to measure the research impact
• Eigenfactor and Article Influence
  study the value and influence of scholarly periodicals, mapping academic research, and navigation of the scholarly publications 
• Scimago Journal and Country Rank
  measure the scientific influence of scholarly journals that includes journal citations and journal rank
• Journal Impact Factor (JIF) - frequency of article citation per specified timeline. JIF is not applicable for the authorial (individual and co-author) publication assessment. JIF is vulnerable to manipulation, inflated by review articles, and incompatible between research fields. 
  

Databases to obtain the Journal Impact Factor, h-index, and other metric 

• Web of Science
• Google Scholar (free bibliographic database of scholarly publication) 
• Scopus (not available in DML)

Citation Analysis
            Citation analysis measure an impact of an author, an article, or publication using cited work counts. Citation analysis helps to explore impact, identify seminal works, and subject discipline impact. 

• H-Index
  measurement of quantity and quality of author's research productivity
• i10-Index
  Google Scholar's measurement  of research productivity used by Google Scholar 
• G-Index
  Egghe's measurement of research productivity that is based on the researchers" publication 

Tools

• Publish or Perish - software used to gather and analyze published article to assess the research impact. 

Databases 

• Web of Science
• CINAHL
• PsycInfo
• EMBASE
• PubMed Central
• Google Scholar (free bibliographic database of scholarly publication) 
• Science Direct (not available in DML)
• SciFinder Scholar (not available in DML)

• Altmetrics
  alternative non-traditional measurement method for the citation analysis of the academic publications 
• ImpactStory
  ​free open sources web-based tool used to measure researcher's impact of research outputs 
• Plum Analytics
  analysis of the citations, usage, capture, mentions, and social media of researchers data associated with research articles, conference proceedings, book chapters, and other publications in the online environment
• US News & World Report. Best Global Universities 
• Academic Ranking of World Universities
• Times Higher Education World University Rankings
• QS World University Ranking 

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