Using journal citation reports, citation databases (such as Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar), and the research repository to find impact measures about your research. (Presentation by Deborah Fitchett and Janette Nicolle)

1. Have you been cited?
“In 1955, it did not occur to me that “impact” would one
day become so controversial. Like nuclear energy, the
impact factor is a mixed blessing. I expected it to be used
constructively while recognizing that in the wrong hands
it might be abused.”
Eugene Garfield

2. Today
 Journal ranking
 The h-index
 Finding citation data on:
 Web of Science
 Scopus
 Google Scholar
 Publish or Perish
 Research repository

3. Journal Citation Reports

4. SCIMago Journal Rank (SJR)

5. h-index
“A scientist has
index h if h of
his/her Np papers
have at least h
citations each, and
the other (Np − h)
papers have no
more than h
citations each.”

6. Web of Science
 Limited to 12,000 WoS journals
 Strong in natural and health
sciences, medicine, chemistry and
physics
 Weaker in social sciences & humanities
 Less coverage of conferences, books &
non-English sources
 Variations in author names

7. Scopus
 Introduced in 2004 by Elsevier
 18,500 peer-reviewed journals
(including 1,800 Open Access
journals)
 Strong in science, social
sciences, weak in humanities

8. Google Scholar
 Free, quick, easy to use and
comprehensive
 Includes conference
papers, theses, books, chapters
etc
 Not very open about sources
 Weaker for older publications

9. Google Scholar Citations
 My Citations – set up a profile to
automatically retrieve publications
and citations
 Includes citations counts, H-Index
& i10 Index
 Future publications and citations
automatically updated

10. Publish or Perish
 Developed by Anne Wil-Harzing in 2006
 Based on Google Scholar data
 Open source software
http://www.harzing.com/pop.htm

11. Publish or Perish

12. Publish or Perish

13. Open Access
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14. UC Research Repository

15. More information
http://canterbury.libguides.com/scholarly