Who's Citing Me? Measuring Your Research Impact
A guide to bibliometrics, altmetrics, and citation/journal analysis.
Why Track WHO cited me?
Tracking your publication
citations is not just about numbers, it's about WHO is citing your
work. Benefits of tracking who has cited your publications include:
citations is not just about numbers, it's about WHO is citing your
work. Benefits of tracking who has cited your publications include:
- Learn which researchers or institutions are following your work
- Identify possible collaborators
- Identify similar research projects
- Confirm that research findings were properly attributed and credited
- Determine if research findings were duplicated, confirmed, corrected, improved or repudiated
- Determine if research findings were extended (different human populations or animal models/species), etc.
- Quantify return on research investment
- Justify future requests for funding
- Tenure/Promotion
Tracking via Citation Alerts
Use the citation alerts function in databases to be notified when someone cites your work. This allows you to follow who is citing you and when you have been
cited. Alerts can be created for authors or specific articles and can
be sent via email or RSS feed on a specified frequency (daily, weekly,
monthly).
Web of Science Citation Alerts
You can create an alert for an author or a specific article:
- Save a search query on your name as author and create an alert
- Create an alert for a specific article you authored
Google & Google Scholar Alerts
- Set up a Google Scholar Profile and create an alert to be emailed whenever any of your articles are cited
- Set up a Google Alert based on a search of your name or research area for email notification
PubMed Commons Comments
PubMed Commons
enables authors to share opinions and information about scientific
publications indexed in PubMed. As an author of an indexed publication,
you can create an alert to be notified when someone posts a comment to
one of your articles. Create a search for yourself as the author and
articles that have comments, as in the example below:
Example: Olivero M [author] AND has_user_comments [filter]
Then create an alert for this search. View the brief PubMed Tutorial for details on creating an alert.
See the PubMed Commons Guide for more examples of searching for comments in PubMed Commons.Track Altmetrics
Use the free Altmetric bookmarklet
to track other forms of metrics (non-citations) for you published
journal articles. Drag the Bookmarklet to your browser's bookmarks bar
and use this for any journal article to learn of any social media
activity for the selected article.
Citation Alerts - Who's Citing Me? Measuring Your Research Impact - Research Guides at University of Kansas Medical Center
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