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Welcome to the Research Library's Research Impact guide! Here you'll find information on traditional and alternative metrics for measuring research impact at the article, author and journal levels.

If you have questions or need Research Impact data or metrics, email us at research_impact@lanl.gov.

This guide was inspired and influenced by guides from the University of Waterloo, Duke University and the University of Michigan.

Databases and Tools

Scopus This link opens in a new window
The largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, Scopus indexes journals, books and conference proceedings in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.Scopus also provides analytical tools to produce citation metrics.
SciVal This link opens in a new window
Benchmarking and competitive analysis tool using Scopus data sets. Scival can be used to understand collaboration efforts, as well as create publication and citation metrics.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary coverage of over 10,000 journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities, as well as published proceedings for over 12,000 conferences per year, and over 50,000 scholarly books. Analytical tools allow for citation tracking, along with citation, publication, and collaboration metrics.
Journal Citation Reports (JCR) This link opens in a new window
Evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from Web of Science.

InCItes Benchmarking and Analytics
Benchmarking and competitive analysis tool using Web of Science data. InCites can be used to understand collaboration efforts, as well as create publication and citation metrics
Google Scholar Metrics
Metrics and Scholar Profiles derived from the Google Scholar Index.

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Subjects: Research Impact

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ORCID Blog

PLoS One: Citation Analysis