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Assessing Impact: Metrics, Altmetrics and Impact Factors

This guide highlights important metrics used to measure journal impact, author impact and article impact.

Article Level Metrics
 

Web of Science

Citation information with links to Journal’s Impact Factor and ORCIDs.

Scopus 

Citation information, Altmetrics, Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) and CiteScore. 

Google Scholar

Citation information and links to their Google Scholar Citations Researcher Profile with Author Level Metrics.

Dimensions 

Provides Citation information, Relative Citation Ratio (RCR) Mean and  FCR Mean, Altmetrics and Grant Information.

ICite 


Provides citation information and Relative Citation Ratio (RCR) for PUBMED
Publications