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Research Metrics

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

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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,
  • 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.

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