Measure Your Research Impact

The following tools can be used to evaluate the research impact of authors. Some of these tools allow you to create and maintain a public profile that can be integrated with other platforms for ease of use.

ORCID, which stands for Open Researcher and Contributor ID, is a nonprofit organization that assists authors with identifying their contributions to research. Researchers can link their research with Johns Hopkins, which is a member institution. ORCID can also be used to keep a CV or Biosketch up to date.

Use the Publons ResearcherID from Clarivate Analytics to manage and share your professional profile. You can link your ResearcherID to your ORCID, build your publication list, and generate metrics using the Web of Science.

You can use the Scopus author search to look up authors and view metrics based on literature indexed in the Scopus platform.

Install the Altmetric Bookmarklet into your Chrome, Firefox, or Safari browser, then click it any time you want to see an article's reach in social media and the press. View the online shares and mentions of an article with a single click.

Google Scholar creates profiles for authors. You can log in with a Gmail account and update your affiliation, email, and homepage. Google Scholar displays your co-authors, how many times you've been cited, and your h-index based on those citations. Create your profile.

The h-index is a metric used to measure the productivity and the citation impact of an author. It is calculated as the number of papers with a citation number greater than or equal to h. It was created by Hirsch in 2005. Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science all attempt to measure the h-index of authors by looking at their publications and the universe of citing documents.

The h-index metric is only as good as the data it uses and its calculation can be complicated because of confounders like author ambiguity and gray literature. Google Scholar tends to be the most generous in assigning this metric, while Scopus does the best job at author disambiguation and is therefore more accurate.

The Metrics Toolkit can be a useful tool to explore different kinds of metrics and how they should be applied. Explore metrics or choose metrics that you would like to use or learn more about.

Use the Authors search in Scopus to identify yourself or someone else and view metrics, including the h-index. Scopus is leading the field in author disambiguation.

Use the Author Search (under more) in Web of Science to identify yourself or someone else and view metrics, including the h-index. Search by name, choose affiliation, select publications, and click on Create Citation Report in the results page.

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