This document summarizes a workshop on research metrics and citation impact. It discusses different types of metrics to measure journal and article impact, including journal impact factor, CiteScore, SJR, citation count, field-weighted citation impact, and altmetrics. It provides information on how to find these metrics in databases like Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar, and journal metric sites. The document also discusses author-level metrics like h-index and how to create and manage author profiles in ResearcherID, Scopus, and ORCID to track research outputs and citations.

1. Demystifying
Citation Impact
A Workshop on journal rankings, journal
impact factors, citation metrics
11 May 2017

2. YEO Pin Pin
Head, Scholarly Communication
Dong Danping
Librarian, Scholarly Communication
SMU Libraries
Presenters

3. Types of Research Metrics
• Citation count, FWCI, Altmetrics
Article-level Metrics
• Journal Impact Factor, CiteScore, SJR
Journal Metrics
• h-index, FWCI
Author Metrics

4. G
Google Scholar
Data Universe
Scopus
~22,000
journals
WOS
~12,000
journals

5. Why measure journal impact?
◦ Attempt to measure quality and prestige of
journals
◦ Note that it was not meant to evaluate
quality of the individual articles in the
journals

6. Journal Metrics: Journal Impact Factor
No. of cites received by articles published in 2013 & 2014, in year 2015
Total no. of citable articles from that journal in 2013 & 2014
2015
Impact
Factor
=
What does this number mean?
How frequently an average article in this journal has been cited in recent 3 years
Source of data?
Web of Science citation data
How to find this number?
Journal Citation Report (JCR) subscribed by SMU Libraries

7. How to access Journal Citation Report (JCR)
1. Go to SMU Libraries website (library.smu.edu.sg)
2. Click on Databases, search for ‘JCR’
3. Click on ‘Journal Citation Report’
4. Search for the journal title

8. JCR > Journal title search > Full record
Click on Political Science
to see journals in this
category
Type journal title
& click search

9. JCR > Categories search

10. Journal Metrics: CiteScore
Source of data?
Scopus citation data
How to find this number?
Scopus > Sources
Also at http://journalmetrics.scopus.com [Free]
No. of cites received by documents published in 2012, 2013 & 2014, in year 2015
Total no. of documents from that journal in 2012, 2013 & 2014
2015
CiteScore
=

11. Journal Metrics: SCImago Journal Rank
Source of data?
Scopus citation data
How to find this number?
Scopus > Sources
Also at http://journalmetrics.scopus.com [Free]
SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) expresses the average number of
weighted citations received in the selected year by the documents
published in the selected journal in the three previous years

12. How to find CiteScore & SJR in Scopus
1. Go to SMU Libraries website (library.smu.edu.sg)
2. Click on Databases, search for ‘Scopus’
3. Click on ‘Scopus’, click on “Sources”

13. Scopus > Sources > Journal title search

14. Journal Metrics > Title search [http://journalmetrics.scopus.com]

15. Journal Metrics > Subject area search

16. Things to Note
◦ You cannot compare impact factor/
CiteScore/SJR across different subject areas
◦ It gives you an idea about the quality of a
journal, but not the quality of an article

17. Comparison of Top Journals
◦ Academy of Management Journal
JIF = 6.233 | CiteScore = 8.71 | SJR = 10.317
◦ Journal of Finance
JIF = 5.290 | CiteScore = 6.30 | SJR = 14.546
◦ Quarterly Journal of Economics
JIF = 5.538 | CiteScore = 9.59 | SJR = 20.761
◦ Journal of Applied Psychology
JIF = 3.810 | CiteScore = 5.20 | SJR = 4.641
◦ Political Analysis
JIF = 3.419 | CiteScore = 5.86 | SJR = 7.155
◦ ACM Computing Surveys
JIF = 5.243 | CiteScore = 10.32 | SJR = 3.405
◦ Nature
JIF = 38.138 | CiteScore = 14.38 | SJR = 21.936

18. Types of Research Metrics
• Journal Impact Factor, CiteScore, SJR
Journal Metrics
• h-index, FWCI
Author Metrics
• Citation count, FWCI, Altmetrics
Article-level Metrics

19. Article-Level Metrics
ALMs measures the impact of individual articles
Citation Count
Can be found from a variety of sources: WOS, Scopus, Google Scholar.
Altmetrics
• A non-traditional metrics to capture influences outside academia
• Capture interest on social media, readership, discussions and so on
• Gives indication of immediate impact compared to citations
Field Weight Citation Impact (FWCI)
Can be found from a variety of sources: InCites, Scopus

20. What is FWCI?
◦ Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI)
indicates how the number of citations
received by a publication compares with the
average number of citations received by all
other similar publications in the data
universe
◦ Where 1 is average and the higher the ratio
the better
◦ Normalised for Subject area (of journal),
Publication year, Document type
20

21. How to access WOS / Scopus / Google Scholar for
citation count
1. In the database, search for the article title

22. WOS > Article title search
Click on Times Cited
to see details of citing
articles

23. Scopus > Article title search
Scroll down the page to
see more metrics,
including FWCI

24. GS > Article title search [http://scholar.google.com]

25. Altmetrics
Usage Data
• Clicks & page views
• Downloads
Discussions on
the open web
• Blog posts
• Comments, shares, likes in Facebook, Twitter, etc.
Interest in
reading/citing
the work
• Bookmarks, saves, subscriptions, citation exports
• Readership on citation managers such as
Mendeley - a good early indicator of future
citations

26. Altmetric in InK
◦ http://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/504/

27. AltMetric on Publisher website
◦ http://doi.org/10.1177/0146167213519481

28. Types of Research Metrics
• Journal Impact Factor, CiteScore, SJR
Journal Metrics
• h-index, FWCI
Author Metrics
• Citation count, FWCI, Altmetrics
Article-level Metrics

29. Author Metrics
H-index measures both productivity and citation impact
What does this number mean?
If I have an h-index of 5, I have at least 5 publications that have been cited at
least 5 times.
Source of data?
H-index from different sources can be different!
Web of Science | Scopus | Google Scholar
How to find this number?
Web of Science (Researcher ID)
Scopus (Scopus Author ID)
Google Scholar only if you have a Google Scholar Profile)

30. Author Metrics
Field Weighted Citation Impact
What does this number mean?
If I have an FWCI of 2, my impact is 200% better than average
for the same type of publications, same subject areas and
same publication years. [Note: Less reliable if < 20 publications]
Source of data?
This metric is calculated using
Web of Science / InCites | Scopus / SciVal
How to find this number?
InCites for individual publications or authors or groups or
institutions
SciVal for authors or groups or institutions
Contact your research librarian

31. How to access WOS / Scopus / Google Scholar
for h-index
1. In the database, search for author’s name

32. WOS > Author search > Create Citation Report

33. WOS > Author > Create citation Report

34. Scopus > Author search

35. Scopus > Author metrics

36. GS – Author metrics [http://scholar.google.com.sg]

37. Unique Author Identifiers
Facilitate easy identification of your research outputs
Get credit for your work
Maintain your unique author profiles
• Scopus Author ID (Scopus)
• ResearcherID (Web of Science)
• ORCID

38. Manage author profile: Scopus Author ID
Auto-update in Scopus
(some logic and algorithm, but not perfect)
• Ensure all publications under one ID
• Easily check your total citations &
h-index in Scopus

39. Manage author profile: ResearcherID
◦ You can create your own RID,
Library create for you if you do not have
one
◦ No auto-update
◦ In WOS, login and select new pubs to add to
RID

40. Manage your author profile: ORCID
The preferred
author
identifier at
SMU
Keep track of
you research
output
Exchange
data with
other author
IDs
Use ORCID
when
submitting to
publishers
Similar/
identical
names, name
variations

41. Manage author profile: Creating GS Profile
◦ Go to Google Scholar
http://scholar.google.com.sg
◦ Login with SMU email
◦ Complete Profile and add publications
◦ Prompt to add new publications

42. “
Use more than one metric to give a
more complete picture
Metrics are a way to quantify
something
Be aware of the data behind the
metrics

43. Useful Links
SMU Libraries http://library.smu.edu.sg/
InK http://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/
Web of Science http://libproxy.smu.edu.sg/login?url=http://webofknowledge.com/WOS
Journal Citation
Reports
http://libproxy.smu.edu.sg/login?url=http://webofknowledge.com/JCR/
Scopus http://libproxy.smu.edu.sg/login?url=http://www.scopus.com
Scopus Journal
Metrics
http://journalmetrics.scopus.com/
SCImago JR http://scimagojr.com/
ORCID http://orcid.org/
Altmetric.com http://www.altmetric.com/

44. Thank you for your attention
ANY QUESTIONS?
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