Suggested tools

About the tools

There are a number of tools available that will include or generate a range of different metrics.

Important:

Each tool or database will use a different data source
Your outputs may not be indexed in all of the sources, so how you are represented in each will vary
The metrics will be different across the different tools
There is not one complete and comprehensive source.

The table below lists some of these tools and indicates the type of metric available.

Tool

Metrics

Researcher Dashboard

(University of Melbourne Staff Only)

Author Metrics

Field-weighted citation impact (SciVal)
H-index (SciVal)
H5-index (SciVal)
Citation count (Scopus)
Citation count (Web of Science)
Percentage of papers in Q1 journals (SciMago)

Minerva Elements

(University of Melbourne Staff Only)

Article Metrics

Citations (Scopus)
Citations (Web of Science)
Altmetric Attention Score

Dimensions Badges

Total citations
Recent citations
Field Citation Ration (FCR)
Relative Citation Ration (RCR)

Journal Metrics

SNIP
SJR

Minerva Access

Metrics for included items only

Article Metrics

Views (with country statistics)
Downloads
Altmetric Attention Score

Melbourne Figshare

Metrics for included items only

Article Metrics

Views
Downloads
Citations

Scopus

Author Metrics

H-index
Total citations

Article Metrics

Citations
Views
Field-weighted citation impact (FWCI)
PlumX alternative metrics

Journal Metrics

SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper)
SJR

SciVal

Data from Scopus

Institution Metrics

Author Metrics

H-index
H5-index
Author Field-weighted citation impact (FWCI)
Views
Outputs in top percentiles
Academic/corporate collaborations
Ranking

Benchmarking

SciMago

Free online

Journal Metrics

Quartile rankings
SJR

Web of Science

Author Metrics

H-index
Total citations

Article Metrics

Citations
Views

Journal Metrics

Journal Impact Factor
Quartile rankings

InCites

Data from Web of Science

Institution Metrics

Author Metrics

H-index
Total Citations
Rankings
Collaboration

Article Metrics

Category Normalized Citation Impact
Percentile in Subject Area
Highly Cited Papers

Journal Metrics

Journal Impact Factor (JIF)

Benchmarking

JCR - Journal Citation Reports

Journal Metrics

Journal Impact Factor (JIF)
Quartile rankings

Dimensions

Institution Metrics

Author Metrics

Total citations
Datasets
Grants
Patents
Clinical Trials

Article Metrics

Citations
Recent citations
Field Citation Ration (FCR)
Relative Citation Ratio (RCR)
Citing research categories

Altmetric Explorer

Article Metrics

Social media mentions
Media mentions
Policy mentions

Overton

Article Metrics

Policy citations/mentions
Clinical guideline citations

Google Scholar

Author Metrics

H-index
Total citations
Citation per publication

Article Metrics

Citations

Publisher Websites - will differ

Possible Article Metrics

Views
Downloads
Altmetrics

Possible Journal Metrics

Industry Reports

Company and Industry Guide

Commercialisation

Markets

Impact planning and tracking tools

Hiive Impact Tracker

Hiive ImpactTracker is an online platform that allows researchers to store and organise research project or program information, including different types of evidence of research impact.

Further information and request an access

Emerald Impact Planner

A self-paced, online training platform designed to develop research impact knowledge and literacy, and to help you build your research impact plan.

Access the training through the Research Gateway