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RILAS Masterguide

This is a private guide for use by Rilas Op Group members to support and populate guides they create relating to research impact metrics, alternative metrics and related topics.

Example Statements

Our article presenting the issues that dengue fever poses for international travel is in the top 5% of cited articles published on dengue fever between 2013-2015.

Metric found by searching under Topic in Web of Science or Scopus


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2. Search for the broad issue which your papers discusses (your paper needs to have the term in title or abstract or as an indexed term)
3. Limit the result set to either the year published or years surrounding publication
4. Sort the result set by Times Cited
5. Find your paper in the set and then divide the number in the result set by the total number of articles in the result set to get the ranking
(e.g.  Paper is position 50/1000 total items = Top 5%)

Scopus

1. Go to Scopus
2. Search for the broad issue which your papers discusses (your paper needs to have the term in title or abstract or as an indexed term)
3. Limit the result set to either the year published or years surrounding publication
4. Sort the result set by Times Cited
5. Find your paper in the set and then divide the number in the result set by the total number of articles in the result set to get the ranking
(e.g.  Paper is position 50/1000 total items = Top 5%)

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