Liane Taylor

Interim Head Acquisitions Librarian

Texas State University

14 November 2014

TECHNOLOGY CHANGES

GOALS DON’T

1.Promotion & Tenure2.Build Research Network3.Increase Citation Counts4.Reputation Management5.Promotion & Tenure

• Impact Factor (Thomson Reuters JCR/Web of Science)

• Eigenfactor (public but based on Thomson Reuters JCR)

• SCImago Journal Rank Indicator (SJR) (Elsevier Scopus)

• Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) (Scopus)

• Google Journal Metrics (Google Scholar)

• European Reference Indicator for the Humanities (ERIH)

Journal Influence & Ranking

NO MEASURE FITS ALL DISCIPLINES: IDENTIFY MEASURES & CRITERIA THAT

ARE COMPATIBLE WITH YOUR FIELD

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NO SINGLE TOOL PROVIDES A COMPLETE CITATION COUNT

CITATION COUNTS VARY ACROSS DISCIPLINES

Author & Publication Influence & Impact

Citations of a book in Bar-Ilan, J. (2010) Citations to the “Introduction to informetrics” indexed by WOS, Scopus and Google Scholar. Scientometrics, 82(3), p.504

• Times Cited / Citation Counts

• Web of Science Citation Databases

• SCOPUS

• Google Scholar

• Core Disciplinary Database (IEEE, MathSciNet, psycINFO)

• H-Index

• Database relative (h-Index in Scopus vs Web of Science)

• Publish or Perish

• Software for analyzing impact within Google Scholar

Author & Publication Influence & Impact

Altmetrics

Institutional Research Analytics Tools

Elsevier Thomson Reuters

Author Disambiguation

Author Identifier

Networking & Research Profiles

A Word of Caution…

Citation Analysis & Journal Impact Factor

http://libguides.txstate.edu/citation-analysis

Copyright (Author’s Rights and more…)

http://libguides.txstate.edu/copyright

Faculty Toolkit: Altmetrics & Academic Social Media

http://libguides.txstate.edu/academicsocialmedia

Faculty Toolkit: Measuring Scholarly Impact

http://libguides.txstate.edu/impact

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