Impact Factors and Bibliometrics: how to assess the impact of your publications
Please note: some of these resources talk about tools such as Scopus, which Edinburgh Napier University does not have access to.
Tutorials and summaries
University of Southampton Measuring Impact webpage - this provides another very useful summary
includes explanations of Citation Indexes, Impact Factors and the various metrics in general use.
Research Impact and Metrics - pages created by Maynooth University Library in Ireland covering a broad range of topics
an 8 minute video from PHD Comics that introduces the concepts of open access and compares with traditional journals publishing models.
Tools
SCImago Journal & Country Rank (SJR)
this service uses data from SCOPUS to perform a complex algorithm based on Google PageRanking to determine the "average prestige per paper" of a journal
coverage of Creative Industries is the best I have seen so far
please note that none of these services are perfect tools - various factors in the underlying data can cause bias in the analysis.
this service uses data from Web of Science to perform a complex algorithm based on Google PageRanking to "estimate the percentage of time that library users spend with that journal"
coverage of arts & humanities is limited at present
please note that none of these services are perfect tools - various factors in the underlying data can cause bias in the analysis.
a software program designed to help individual academics to present their case for research impact to best advantage.
it uses Google Scholar to obtain the raw citations, then analyzes these and presents a variety of statistics.
they do warn that it is not a perfect tool - a poor result might be due to working in an obscure subject, writing in a languge other than English, or publishing mainly in books.
the records in the Web of Science database section include lists of references cited in the article.
the database allows you to find all articles that cite a particular published work, and perform statistical comparisons of academic output.
searches can be limited to the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, Science Citation Index, or any combination of these.
off-campus access requires your Edinburgh Napier network login details