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Research Impact Tools

The following table details library licensed tools and common resources used to provide metrics and analyze researcher impact and data. 

Overview of Research Impact Tools

Elsevier **
(Library Licensed)

SciVal & Scopus: Research Metrics Guidebook

Clarivate
(Library Licensed)

InCites: Analytics User Guide
WoS: Understanding WoS Core Collection

Overton
(Library Licensed)

Overton Knowledge Base

Google
(Free)

About Google Scholar

SciVal Scopus InCites Web of Science Overton Google Scholar
Getting Started with your Profile
Learn to setup and manage your researcher profile
Getting Started & Accessing SciVal

Overview of Scopus

Understanding Author Profiles in Scopus

Creating your InCites Account

Getting Started with InCites Explorer

Creating and Managing your WoS Profile Getting Started with Overton Creating your Profile
Author Level Metrics
Tools for measuring the bibliographic impact of an individual

Overview of Authors & Researchers

Citation Metrics

Publishing Metrics

Overview of Author Profiles

Understanding Scopus Metrics

Overview of Researcher Entity

Understanding Impact Profiles

Indicators Handbook

Overview of Author and Research Impact

Researcher Profile Metrics

Understanding Authors in Overton

Author Affiliations

Researcher Profiles

Available Metrics
Institutional Level Metrics
Tools for measuring the bibliographic impact of an organization
Overview of Institutional Metrics Overview of Institutional Metrics

Overview of Organizations Entity

Understanding Institutional Profiles

Feature not available Locating Institutional Metrics Feature not available
Article Level Metrics
Tools for quantifying how individual articles are cited, used, shared, and discussed
Overview of Article Level Metrics

Overview of Article Level Metrics

Understanding Scopus Metrics

Research Areas of the Explorer to analyze publication output and impact of research published within various areas within your institution Article Citation Reports

Article Metric Reports

Searching for Citations

Available Metrics

Citation Metrics

Journal Level Metrics
Tools for measuring the influence of a particular journal
Overview of Journal Metrics

Overview of Journal Metrics

CiteScore Metrics Tool

Scopus Sources page for browsing list of all journals, book series, trade publications, and conference proceedings available on Scopus

Journal Citation Reports

Getting Started with Journal Citation Reports

Journal Citation Reports: Replicating data via WoS Core Collection searches

Locating Journal Metrics

How Journal Subjects are Assigned

Metrics of Top Publications
Alternative Metrics
Tools for measuring non-traditional metrics relating to both the impact on field or discipline, and society

Views

Societal Impact

Economic Impact

PlumX Metrics Feature not available Feature not available

Locating Alternative Metrics

Altmetrics Code of Conduct

Feature not available
Collaboration Indicators
Tools for measuring research partnerships between sectors and institutions

Overview of Collaboration Indicators

Geographical Collaboration

Sector Collaboration

Feature not available Overview of Collaboration Indicators Feature not available Feature not available Co-authors of Google Scholar's profile can be added manually.
Funding Details
Tools for analyzing funding data of published research

Overview of Awarded Grants

Awarded Grants Metric

Overview of Awarded Grants Overview of Funding Agency Explorer Tool Overview of Funding Data Overview of Funding Information Funding Agency Details
Monitoring Trends
Tools for measuring topic, research, and publication trends

Overview of Trends Monitoring Tool

Analyzing Research Areas

Feature not available Using the Benchmarking & Analytics Tool Overview of Analyze Results Tool Feature not available Feature not available
Benchmarking
Tools for identifying notable research topics
Benchmarking Examples Benchmarking Examples

Overview of Benchmarking & Analytics

Essential Science Indicators Schema

Feature not available Understanding Benchmarks Citation graph in profile captures total citations by year. 

**Note on Elsevier Tools: SciVal makes use of the Scopus database to build its metrics and support its varied functions. As such, automatically generated profile data in Scopus can be repurposed in SciVal. Users can build on Scopus author profile data to define researchers according to their criteria. In SciVal, researchers are entities which have been created with the benefit of human input. SciVal users can combine author profiles, remove publications, and add individual publications to create a Researcher in the system.