Research Impact and Author Profiles

The following resources provide information about citation counts:

• Google Scholar
• Scopus
• Web of Science 

Article usage/views metrics are sometimes available from:

• Individual publishers website
• Web of Science Usage Counts, similar to an article download, back to 2013.
• Institutional repositories 
• Social media and Altmetrics
• Other tools
  • PLOS ALM http://almreports.plos.org/ 
  • Bookmarklet for Altmetrics https://www.altmetric.com/products/free-tools/bookmarklet/

If you have access to Scopus, on the Scopus document details (article) page, a sidebar highlights the minimal number of meaningful metrics a researcher needs to evaluate both citation impact and levels of community engagement. The module displays the following (available for each article):

• Citation count and percentile benchmark
• Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI)
• Mendeley readership count and benchmark
• Count of 1 type of scholarly commentary (e.g., blog posts, Wikipedia)
• Count and benchmark of 1 type of social activity (e.g., Twitter, Facebook)
• Total count of additional metrics and link to see breakdown by source

For more information visit Scopus Article Metrics