Measure your scholarly impact to showcase your research via citation-based measures such as:
Use the Metrics Toolkit to further understand the research metrics landscape.
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Citation count |
Number of times a publication has been cited by other research More about citation count for articles and books/chapters |
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h-index |
An h-index of five means that an author has five publications that have been cited at least five times Note: should only compare within same discipline and career-stage |
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Citations per paper |
Total number of citations divided by total number of publications |
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Journal metrics
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Journal citation-based measures such as Impact Factor, CiteScore, SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) etc. Note: measures the impact of journals, not individual articles |
See ‘Journal quality’ section for more information |
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Normalised citation impact measures |
Shows how the number of citations compares with the average expected by similar publications (same year, same type, same subject area) |
SciVal – Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI) InCites - Category Normalised Citation Impact (CNCI) Dimensions – Field Citation Ratio (FCR) |
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Publications in top citation percentiles |
Number of publications reaching a specific citation threshold (e.g. in top 1% most cited) |
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Publications in top journals |
Number of publications in top-ranked journals (eg top 1%, 10% etc or top quartile (Q1)) |