Citation Analysis: Metrics
Author Identification
As many articles and reports are listed by author's last name and first inital, and most of those are not extremely unique names, these organizations have made it their mission to create unique identifers for the public identities of individuals to prevent confusion over people with the similar or even the same names.
WorldCat Identities
"WorldCat Identities has a summary page for every name in WorldCat (currently some 30 million names) including named persons, organizations and fictious characters. The pages include information derived from WorldCat and other sources (VIAF,FAST) plus with unique data derived or created through a variety of special processing activities (e.g., WorldCat Identities provides statistical data about how widely held a work is). A typical WorldCat Identities page will include a list of most widely held-by-libraries works by and about the identity, a list of variant forms of name the identity has been known by, a FAST tag cloud of places, topics, etc. closely related to works by and about the person, links to co-authors, and more."
Metrics
- Journal Citation Reports This link opens in a new windowJournal Citation Reports is published annually in two editions and allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals from more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries. JCR Science Edition contains data from over 5,900 journals in science and technology. JCR Social Sciences Edition contains data from over 1,700 journals in the social sciences. Searchable by subject category, publisher, country or specific journal title. Note, this resource does not have a humanities edition. Available on the Web of Knowledge platform.
COUNTER: Usage Factor
"The overall aim of the Usage Factor project is to explore how online journal usage statistics might form the basis of a new measure of journal impact and quality, the Usage Factor (UF)."
Publish or Perish
"Publish or Perish is a software program that retrieves and analyzes academic citations. It uses Google Scholar to obtain the raw citations, then analyzes these and presents the following statistics:
- Total number of papers
- Total number of citations
- Average number of citations per paper
- Average number of citations per author
- Average number of papers per author
- Average number of citations per year
- Hirsch's h-index and related parameters
- Egghe's g-index
- The contemporary h-index
- The age-weighted citation rate
- Two variations of individual h-indices
- An analysis of the number of authors per paper."
ImpactStory
Allows you to create a report that shows your impact all other the web, tracking information from blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Wikipedia, and other non-scholarly websites in addition to databases such as Scopus to give a more rounded view of how frequently a researcher is being cited by the public.