There are multiple sources for finding researcher metrics. This table provides general guidance on a range of sources. The key data sources and critical metrics differs from discipline to discipline. For definitions of these metrics, see Glossary. To help you evaluate available metrics to build your specific case, use the Metrics Toolkit.
It is easiest to find your H-Index in one of the Author dashboards. We also tell you about other ways to locate your H-Index.
| Web of Science |
Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics) Core Collection with access to content in over 22,000 journals, including Open Access and conference proceedings. Author-level metrics:
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| InCites |
InCites (Clarivate Analytics) is a citation-based evaluation and benchmarking tool to analyze institutional productivity and benchmark output against peers in a national or international context.
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| Scopus |
Scopus (Elsevier) provides access to over 23,700 peer-reviewed journals (including Open Access journals), 166,000 books and conference papers in the Health Sciences, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences and Social Sciences. Author-level metrics:
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| SciVal |
SciVal (Elsevier) offers access to the research data of research institutions, researchers and countries. Data can be graphed/ tabled to show performance relative to peers.
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| Google Scholar Citations |
Google Scholar searches across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
** Caveat when using Google Scholar data for research evaluation: Data accuracy for benchmarking purposes cannot be assured. E.g., comparable researchers may not have implemented publication date corrections and may use different labels and field categorisation.
Author-level metrics:
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| Publish or Perish |
Publish or Perish retrieves and analyses academic citations using data from Google Scholar, and Microsoft Academic Search to obtain raw citation data and then compute the metrics below:
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| Elements |
Elements is the University of Melbourne’s Publication Management System.
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| Researcher Dashboard |
Access the Research domain dashboards for individual researchers (RES01) on the Infohub. (How to access the Researcher Dashboard - KBA)
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