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Publication Metrics

This is a guide to the various metrics used to measure research impact.

What Are Article-Level Metrics

The purpose of article-level metrics is to establish the impact of an article. The most common way of evaluating this is to count the number of times an article has been cited in other articles. Citation counts vary by the database used because the number of journal titles included varies.

Web of Science

Citation Network

  • Times cited
  • View citing preprints
  • Comparison to peers
  • Citing items by classification: Breakdown of how this article has been mentioned, based on available citation context data and snippets from 3906 citing item(s).

Cited Reference Counts

  1. Select "Cited Reference Search" tab
  2. Enter author's name, the work's source, and/or publication year for the cited work
  3. "Select Page" or "Select All" for the cited works
  4. "Finish Search" to retrieve results

Article Designations

  • Highly Cited Papers -  received enough citations to place it in the top 1% of the academic field based on a highly cited threshold for the field and publication year.
  • Hot Papers - published in the past two years and received enough citations in the current year to place it in the top 0.1% of papers in the academic field.

Google Scholar - Citation Count

Connect to Google Scholar and search for an article. Includes citation counts. Can be broken down by publishing platform.

H1Connect (formerly Faculty Opinions, formerly Faculty of 1000)

Essential Science Indicators from Web of Science