Research impact mainly refers to the influence that a scholar's work, especially the published work can have. Research metrics are the ones that help measure the impact using quantitative methods that give value to scholarly output. These metrics are available at different levels viz. Article level, Author level, Journal level and Organisation level.
Research impact is often measured (the impact of Scholarly publications) using quantitative methods such as citation counts, the h-index, i10-index, Impact Factor (IF), Eigenfactor, SCImago Journal Ranking (SJR), Category Normalized Citation impact and others. The Altmetrics, an emerging metrics measures the use and influence of scholarly works by counting the number of times a publication is read, downloaded, saved, or cited in social media and popular sources.
These measures, among many benefits, show the individual or collective productivity and impact, who have cited the work, demonstrate network of collaborators, compare with peer’s work, help attract future research funding, and also find out the right kind of publication to publish the research work.
The library staff trained in Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, Altmetrics and other quantitative measures will be happy to assist the researchers at the Institute using major citation databases such as Scopus , Web of Science and others.
Where required, library staff would also use open citation databases such as Google Scholar, Dimensions, Microsoft Academic, Semantic Scholar, Lens.Org, Scinapse, Scilit, Scite, NAVER Academic, and ScienceOpen among many others.
The Metrics Toolkit Use this Metrics toolkit to quickly explore research metrics used to understand and use citations, web metrics, and altmetrics responsibly in the evaluation of research.
We will be happy to assist you or undertake the impact analysis of your research work. Please write to us at librarian@iitgn.ac.in