Articles are published in journals.
Article metric or impact is calculated based on the number of times it has been cited.
Track who cited an article or book. Citation searching is useful for determining the impact of an article, book or author. It can be used to identify journals in which to publish, monitor research in a particular field, and identify potential research partners.
Article Influence
The Eigenfactor score divided by the number of articles published in journal. "I know how impactful the journal as a whole is, but what about the average individual article in the journal?"
SNIP - Source-Normalized Impact per Paper
Citation impact is weighted based on the total number of citations in a subject field. The impact of a citation is given higher value in subject areas where citations are less likely.
h5-index
This metric is based on the articles published by a journal over 5 calendar years. h is the largest number of articles that have each been cited h times. A journal with an h5-index of 43 has published, within a 5-year period, 43 articles that each have 43 or more citations.
Altmetrics focus on readership, diffusion and reuse indicators that can be tracked via blogs, social media, peer production systems, collaborative annotation tools (including social bookmarking and reference management services).
Citation tracking can be used to discover how many times a particular article has been cited by others. Generally, the best articles have been cited most often.
Citation counts are not perfect and do not provide a complete citation count. Citation counts only count the number of times articles were cited by articles indexed in a specific database. Though Google Scholar may provide higher citation numbers, it may count a citation for one article more than once, or count links from Wikipedia or other websites. A number of factors can influence citation counts. Poor quality articles may be cited by those refuting them and very good articles might not be read or cited.
Citation indexes allow you to search academic literature and follow the progress of debates on a topic. Citation indexes help pinpoint the most influential articles on a subject, and the leading academics. You can track articles chronologically backwards and forwards to determine the position of a debate at a specific point in time.
Citation tracking helps identify response to a topics, criticisms, corrections, and retractions to articles. Citation tracking provides a way to analyse the direction and pace of research trends, shedding light on emerging areas of research.
Find citation counts and trace citations in these databases.
