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Research Metrics

A guide to help understand the different sources used for research metrics

Find metrics

When you are looking for metrics to add to your grant proposal or promotion application, for example.

Web of Science can be used to:

  • analyse and view metrics for a group of publications,
  • find article and journal metrics,
  • locate high performing work,
  • view researcher metrics and profiles, and
  • track citations.

Incites can be used to:

  • analyse and view metrics for a group of publications,
  • find article and journal metrics,
  • locate high performing work,
  • view researcher metrics, and
  • find normalised citation metrics.

SciVal can be used to:

  • analyse and view metrics for a group of publications,
  • find article and journal metrics,
  • locate high performing papers,
  • view alternative metrics (PlumX),
  • find normalised citation metrics,
  • view researcher metrics and profiles, and
  • track citations.

Scopus can be used to:

  • analyse and view metrics for a group of publications,
  • find article and journal metrics,
  • locate high performing work,
  • view alternative metrics (PlumX),
  • find normalised citation metrics,
  • map sustainable development goals (SDGs) to a work,
  • view researcher metrics and profiles, and
  • track citations.

Google Sholar can be used to:

  • analyse and view metrics for a group of publications,
  • find article and journal metrics,
  • locate high performing work,
  • view researcher metrics and profiles, and
  • track citations.

Altmetric Explorer can be used to:

  • analyse and view metrics for a group of publications,
  • locate high performing work,
  • view alternative metrics, and
  • track citations.

Altmetric Explorer can be used to:

  • show how widely your research has been shared,
  • demonstrate the mentions and reach of your research, and
  • indicate the attention your research receives.

PlumX (via Scopus) can be used to:

  • view citation metrics,
  • show how widely your research has been shared,
  • demonstrate the mentions and reach of your research,
  • indicate the attention your research receives, and
  • view usage metrics like downloads.

Journal Citation Reports (JCR) can be used to:

  • find journal impact factors (JIF),
  • view journal citation data, and
  • discover journal percentiles and rankings.

Scopus can be used to:

  • find CiteScore journal metrics,
  • locate percentiles and rankings,
  • view Scimago Journal Rank (SJR), and
  • find journal citation data.

Scimago can be used to:

  • view journal citation data,
  • locate journal quartiles,
  • view Scimago Journal Rank (SJR), and
  • find country rankings.

Web of Science can be used to:

  • analyse and view metrics for a group of publications,
  • find article and journal metrics,
  • locate high performing work,
  • view researcher metrics and profiles, and 
  • track citations.

InCites can be used to:

  • analyse and view metrics for a group of publications,
  • find article and journal metrics,
  • locate high performing work,
  • view researcher metrics, and
  • find normalised citation metrics.

SciVal can be used to:

  • analyse and view metrics for a group of publications,
  • find article and journal metrics,
  • locate high performing work,
  • view alternative metrics (PlumX),
  • find normalised citation metrics,
  • view researcher metrics and profiles, and
  • track citations.

Scopus can be used to:

  • analyse and view metrics for a group of publications,
  • find article and journal metrics,
  • locate high performing work,
  • view alternative metrics (PlumX),
  • find normalised citation metrics,
  • view researcher metrics and profiles, and
  • track citations.

Google Scholar can be used to:

  • analyse and view metrics for a group of publications,
  • find article and journal metrics,
  • locate high performing work,
  • view researcher metrics and profiles, and
  • track citations.

Altmetric Explorer can be used to:

  • show how widely your research has been shared,
  • demonstrate the mentions and reach of your research, and
  • indicate the attention your research receives.

Incites can be used to:

  • analyse and view metrics for a group of publications,
  • view and analyse different levels of organisational research,
  • find article and journal metrics,
  • locate high performing work,
  • view researcher metrics, and
  • find normalised citation metrics.

SciVal can be used to:

  • analyse and view metrics for a group of publications,
  • view and analyse different levels of organisational research,
  • find article and journal metrics,
  • locate high performing work,
  • view alternative metrics (PlumX),
  • find normalised citation metrics,
  • view researcher metrics and profiles, and
  • track citations.

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