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Metrics Toolkit

Metrics Toolkit
"A resource for researchers and evaluators that provides guidance for demonstrating and evaluating claims of research impact. With the Toolkit you can quickly understand what a metric means, how it is calculated, and if it’s good match for your impact question."

What is the Journal Impact Factor?

Impact Factor Definition
From Journal InCites Citation Reports A-Z Glossary. [Wright State University w number login required].

Find an Impact Factor

Journal Citation Reports This link opens in a new window
Evaluate and compare journals using Web of Science social science and science citation data calculated as impact factors.

More about Impact Factors

Measuring Your Impact: Impact Factor, Citation Analysis, and other Metrics
A guide developed at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Overview of h-index, Eigenfactor, Impact Factor (IF), Journal Citation Reports, Citation Analysis, and other tools.

Other Rankings or Metrics

Metrics Toolkit
"A resource for researchers and evaluators that provides guidance for demonstrating and evaluating claims of research impact. With the Toolkit you can quickly understand what a metric means, how it is calculated, and if it’s good match for your impact question."
CWTS Journal Indicators
Includes Impact per Publication, Source Normalized Index per Publication (SNIP), and percentage of journal self-citations. From the Center for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University (powered by Scopus).
CiteScore Metrics from Journals and Serials
From Scopus. Includes Source Normalized Impact Per Publication (SNIP), SciImago Journal Rank (SJR), and citation data.
Eigenfactor.org
Searchable database of Eigenfactor®
and Article Influence® scores from 1997 to 2015. Eigenfactor metrics are also available in Journal Citation Reports.
About Google Scholar Metrics
An explanation of how Google Scholar ranks authors and publications. To access Wright State subscription resources from off campus while using Google Scholar, use the Google Scholar link on the databases list.
Journal Quality List (Harzing.com)
Compiled and edited by Prof. Anne-Wil Harzing: "A collation of journal rankings from a variety of sources...published primarily to assist academics to target papers at journals of an appropriate standard". Includes journals in Economics, Finance, Accounting, Management, and Marketing. Lists can be found under the "Download Information" heading.

Author Metrics

Web of Science Core Collection This link opens in a new window
This option will search a combination of the Clarivate science, social science, and arts and humanities citation databases, and conference citations in science and social science. This option is useful when searching for highly cited interdisciplinary literature.

Introduction to Author Assessment
An overview of citation counts, relative citation ratio (iCite), and h-index from Arizona State University's guide to Citation Research and Impact Metrics.

More Information about These Metrics

Metrics Toolkit
"A resource for researchers and evaluators that provides guidance for demonstrating and evaluating claims of research impact. With the Toolkit you can quickly understand what a metric means, how it is calculated, and if it’s good match for your impact question."
Citation Research and Impact Metrics
A guide developed at Arizona State University. A good overview of the various kinds of tools and rankings involved in citation research.
Journals (Metrics)
From Arizona State University's guide on Citation Research and Impact Metrics. Includes a section on other sources of journal rankings.

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