There are multiple sources of metrics to demonstrate impact of research outputs. This guide provides researchers with general guidance on a range of sources. The key data sources and critical metrics differs from discipline to discipline. To help you evaluate which tools and metrics are available to build your specific case, use the Metrics Toolkit.
| Web of Science |
Web of Science (owned by Clarivate Analytics) Core Collection provides access to authoritative, multidisciplinary content in over 12,000 journals including Open Access and conference proceedings. Pick from these metrics to demonstrate the scholarly impact/relevance of publications:
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| Scopus |
Scopus (owned by Elsevier) provides access to over 23700 peer-reviewed journals (including Open Access journals), 166000 books and conference papers in the Health Sciences, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences and Social Sciences. Pick from these metrics to demonstrate the scholarly impact/relevance of 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. Pick from these metrics to demonstrate the scholarly impact/relevance of publications:
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| Minerva Elements |
Minerva Elements (owned by Digital Science) is the University of Melbourne’s Publication Management System. Harvested metrics from CrossRef, Scopus, and Web of Science included:
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| Minerva Access |
Minerva Access is the University of Melbourne’s Institutional Repository. It aims to collect, preserve and showcase the intellectual output of staff and students of the University of Melbourne for a global audience. Pick from these metrics to demonstrate the scholarly impact/relevance of publications:
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| Altmetric Explorer for Institutions |
Altmetric (owned by Digital Science) captures mentions of scholarly output in tweets, blog posts, news stories and other content. You can monitor, search and measure conversations about your publications and compare them against the work of similar academics or in similar fields of research. |
| 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. |