Monday 7 December 2015

Citation Analysis - Optimising your research impact

Source: http://libguides.victoria.ac.nz/optimising-your-research-impact/citation-analysis

Optimising your research impact

This guide provides a starting point to the tools and methods you can use to optimise your research impact.

What is citation analysis?

Citation metrics are based on the number of times a work is cited
as a indicator of the quality of the work: the more citations, the
greater the impact.

Citation data is available from citation databases.

Database	Content and Coverage	Help
Web of Science	The Web of Science Citation Report provides aggregate citation statistics for a set of search results (such as an author search) and calculates the h-index. Coverage: Science Citation Index (1900-present), Social Sciences Citation Index (1900-present), and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present)	Help
InCites	InCites is a web-based research evaluation tool based on citation data from Web of Science. The tool allows you to analyse institutional productivity and benchmark an individual’s output against peers worldwide. You can also use InCites to identify and analyse existing and potential collaboration opportunities.
Essential Science Indicators	Draws on Web of Science data to enable analysis of papers agains 'top', 'hot' and 'highly cited' indicators, field baselines, and citation thresholds. Coverage 2004-present.	Help
Scopus	Provides Author Evaluator, Citation Overview and h-Graph tools. Coverage 1996-present	Help
SciVal	SciVal is a subscription based research performance assessment tool which uses data from Scopus. It provides more advanced metrics than those available in Scopus only and also allows you to benchmark individual researchers, groups of researchers and institutions based on a variety of different metrics.
Google Scholar Citations	Provides information about who is citing your publications and graphs of your citations over time	Help

Limitations:

Note that citation metrics are only as good as the citation data indexed
in each resource. No citation database indexes all published works, and
no citation database covers all subject areas equally. Please contact your Subject Librarian for advice about where to start, or using any of these tools.

The h-index

A popular form of citation analysis is the h-index. The h-index looks at
the total number of papers you have published, and the number of
citations these papers have received.

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Each discipline has it's own 'average' h-index. Please contact your Subject Librarian if you have any questions about the h-index, or citation metrics in general.

Publish or Perish

The freely available Publish or Perish
software is an alternative way to work out individual citation
metrics. It allows you to remove incorrectly attributed, non-scholarly,
and self-citations from metric calculations, is used with Google Scholar citation data, and provides functionality to analyse both author and journal impact.

For a guide on how to use the Publish or Perish software, see this blog post by Patrick Dunleavy.

Video tutorials

Web of Science	Scopus	Essential Science Indicators
Web of Science: Citation Report shows how to calculate your h-index. (6:08 mins)	How to find an author's h-index Score in Scopus (1:29 mins)	ESI on InCites: Quick Tour (4:59 mins)