Understanding Research Impact: Impact Measurements & Tools

Tools

• Browzine - Provides a newsstand interface for browsing journals subscribed to by UR; can sort by SJR journal rank.
• CiteScore - Elsevier/Scopus; journals, book series, conference proceedings and trade journals in the Scopus database. Includes SJR & SNIP.
• Journal Citation Reports - Web of Science/Clarivate; impact factor of journals from the Science Citation Index Expanded and the Social Science Citation Index. Also provides visualizations.
• InCites - Bibliometric analysis layer for Web of Science resources
• Dimensions (Register with UR credentials) - Discovery layer for grants, publications, citations, clinical trials and patents.

Metrics - Journal Level

• Eigenfactor
• H5-index - Top cited publications over the past five years (Google Scholar)
• JCR
• SJR - Includes journal & country rank

Metrics - Author Level

• Altmetric
• CNCI (Category Normalized Citation Impact) - Calculation of citing items and the expected citation rate for documents with the same document type, year of publication and subject area
• H-Index 
• Impact Story
• Harzing's Publish or Perish
• RCR (Relative Citation Ratio) -  Uses citation rates to measure influence at the article level
• SNIP - Source Normalized Impact per Paper

Scholarly Profile Tools

• Google Scholar Profile
• ORCID

You as a Data Point - Academic Social Networks

• Academia.edu
• Mendeley
• ResearchGate