There are multiple sources for finding metrics on traditional research outputs. This table provides guidance on a range of sources. The key data sources and applicable 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.
| Web of Science |
Web of Science (owned by Clarivate Analytics) Core Collection provides access to content in over 20,000 journals, including Open Access and conference proceedings. Item-level metrics for publications:
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| Scopus |
Scopus (owned by Elsevier) provides access to over 23, 700 peer-reviewed journals (including Open Access journals), 166000 books and conference papers in the Health Sciences, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences and Social Sciences. Item-level metrics for publications:
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| Google Scholar |
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. ** There is a caveat to 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.
Pick from these metrics to demonstrate the scholarly impact/relevance of publications:
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| Elements |
Elements is the University of Melbourne’s Publication Management System. Metrics included are:
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| Minerva Access |
Minerva Access is the University of Melbourne’s Institutional Repository. It collects, preserves and showcases the intellectual output of staff and students of the University of Melbourne. Available metrics:
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| Altmetric Explorer |
Altmetric (owned by Digital Science) captures mentions of scholarly output in tweets, blog posts, news stories and other content. Monitor, search and measure conversations about your publications and compare them against the work of similar academics or in similar fields of research.
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Dimensions (owned by Digital Science) brings together links to research from a large number of external partners and publishers.
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| PlumX |
Similar to Altmetric, PlumX (commercial, owned by Elsevier) metrics provide insights into the ways people interact with research outputs. Data is integrated into the results from EBSCO databases and Scopus search results and some publisher inferfaces. Quick tip: Try adding a DOI to https://plu.mx/a/?doi= to see a free, limited set of alt-metrics about a paper from Plum Analytics. |
| ERIC |
ERIC provides coverage of journal articles, conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs. It helps with finding additional citation counts for publications perhaps not covered in Web of Science or Scopus. ERIC (Proquest) provides cited by counts and ERIC (Ebscohost) integrated PlumX data. |