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UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
Determining Your Scholarly Impact
4/24/15
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! Ulrich’s
! Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
! Eigenfactor.com
◦ Cited Reference Searching
◦ H Index
◦ Altmetrics
More accurate if done at the article level, but can also
be done at the researcher level.
◦ Web of Science – Allows you to include incorrectly
cited resources.
◦ Scopus – Easy interface
◦ Google Scholar – Larger number of hits. Sometimes
inPlated due to duplicates.
◦ Based on a formula that calculates the average
number of citing articles for all items in a
[pre]dePined set.
◦ Used to measure the productivity and impact of
the published works of a particular researcher
or even a group of researchers.
◦ Developed by Jorge E. Hirsch and published in
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
of the United States of America 102 (46):
16569-‐16572 November 15 2005
◦ Web of Science – Run an author search, then create a
“Citation Report.”
◦ Scopus – Run and author search, then click “Citation
Overview.”
◦ Researcher ID
◦ Google Citations
http://Scholar.google.com/citations
This is the measurement of the impact an article
has on social media such as Twitter, Facebook, etc.
For more information, see
http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/needtoknow/
2013/08/08/interesting-‐articles-‐on-‐altmetrics/