Traditional Citation Sources

Web of Science This link opens in a new window Provides access to high-quality research from the world's leading arts, humanities, science and social science journals. Includes a Cited Reference search. Online coverage is 1993-present. Earlier print versions are in the library.
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Databases by topic
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A subject/topic listing of all of the electronic databases the library subscribes to.

Non Traditional Sources

Google Scholar
"Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web."

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Journal Impact Factor
Citations to articles from the most recent two full years, divided by the total number of articles from the most recent two full years. "How much is this Journal being cited during the most recent two full years?"

5-Year Journal Impact Factor
Citations to articles from the most recent five full years, divided by the total number of articles from the most recent five full years. "How much is this Journal being cited during the most recent five full years?"

Journal Immediacy Index
Citations to articles from the current year, divided by the total number of articles from the current year. "How much is this Journal being cited during the current year?"

Journal Cited Half-Life
For the current Journal Citation Reports year, the median age of Journal articles cited. "What is the duration of citation to articles in this Journal?"

Eigenfactor
Similar to the 5-Year Journal Impact Factor, but weeds out Journal self-citations. It also, unlike the Journal Citation Reports impact factor, cuts across both the hard sciences and the social sciences.

Article Influence
The Eigenfactor score divided by the number of articles published in Journal. "I know how impactful the Journal as a whole is, but what about the average individual article in the Journal?"

SJR - SCImage Journal Rank
This metric doesn't consider all citations of equal weight; the prestige of the citing journal is taken into account.

SNIP - Source-Normalized Impact per Paper
SNIP weights citations based on the number of citations in a field. If there are fewer total citations in a research field, then citations are worth more in that field.

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Journal Citation Reports (InCites) This link opens in a new window Allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from approximately 12,000 scholarly and technical journals and conference proceedings from more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries. Citation data on journals in virtually all specialties in the areas of science, technology, and social sciences.
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Google Scholar
"Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web."
SCImago Journal & Country Rank
SJR, country rankings
Eigenfactor.org The Eigenfactor score is intended to measure the importance of a journal to the scientific community. Journals are rated according to the number of incoming citations, with citations from highly ranked journals weighted to make a larger contribution to the eigenfactor than those from poorly ranked journals.

Additional Resources

Services for Faculty
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ORCID
unique id for researchers.
The Challenges of Digital Scholarship
This article discusses the validity of using digital scholarship for tenure.
Altmetrics Manifesto
Argues for a new approach to evaluating impact.

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