1. MEASURING IMPACT
HTTP://LIBGUIDES.ECU.EDU/MEASURINGIMPACT

2. WHY DETERMINE RESEARCH IMPACT?
• Job Hunting
• Professional Identity Management
• Tenure Review
• Promotion Review
• Grant Applications

3. WHAT LEVELS OF IMPACT CAN WE TRACK?
(ROADMAP FOR TODAY)
• Journal Level
• Article Level
• Author Level

4. JOURNAL LEVEL IMPACT TOOLS
• Journal Citation Reports
• Eigenfactor and Article Influence
• SCImago (SJR)
• Source Normalized Impact per Paper ( SNIP)

5. IMPACT FACTOR

6. EIGENFACTOR / ARTICLE INFLUENCE

7. SJR JOURNAL AND COUNTRY RANK

8. SJR AND JIF COMPARISON

10. SNIP (FROM CWTS)

11. ARTICLE LEVEL IMPACT TOOLS
• Citation Counts
Google Scholar
• Altmetrics
Altmetric.com Donut

12. SAMPLE CITATION COUNTS (DATABASES)

13. SAMPLE CITATION COUNTS (JOURNALS)

14. GOOGLE SCHOLAR SEARCH OPTIONS

15. CITATION SEARCHING AND FULL TEXT

16. ALTMETRIC TOOLS

17. ALTMETRICS AND ENGAGEMENT

18. THE ALTMETRIC DONUT

19. AUTHOR LEVEL IMPACT TOOLS
• H-index
Scopus
Google Scholar
• Publish or Perish
• Altmetrics
Impact Story

20. H-INDEX
Hirsch writes: A scientist has index
h if h of his/her Np papers have at
least h citations each, and the
other (Np − h) papers have no
more than h citations each.

21. H-INDEX GRAPH IN SCOPUS

22. GOOGLE SCHOLAR PROFILES

23. PUBLISH OR PERISH

25. http://libguides.ecu.edu/MeasuringImpact
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