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Bibliometrics

There are at the author, journal, article and institutional level. Bibliometrics are a quantitative way of measuring the impact of an individual author, journal, article or institutions. Two of the most reliable databases for this information are the Scopus and databases.

Using Scopus to Find Author Bibliometrics

Select Author search.

Enter the Author details in the appropriate boxes and in the Affiliation box enter the institution the author works for. Alternatively if you know the ORCID ID of the author you can enter that in the ORCID box. The ORCID ID is a number unique to a particular author and can be found at: www..org You can also go to this website to register for an ORCID ID.

You can also limit your search to the subject area of the author by selecting one of the four subject areas.

Tick on the Author you require and then click on View citation overview to see the author’s h-index and detailed citation information about their output.

Using Scopus to Find Journal Bibliometrics

First of all click on Compare journals.

Type in the name of the journal you want bibliometric data on and click on the search button.

Select the journal title you require.

The biblometric data is then displayed on the right-hand side of the screen.

Enter the journal title you would like to compare against the first title and select.

The data for that journal will then be plotted on the graph opposite.

There is also the option to display the information as a table.

The default bibliometric measure for journals is the Scimago Journal Rank (SJR). This is an example of a prestige metric which means it takes into account where a citation is made, for example a citation in would count for more than if it was in the Hong Kong Journal of Medicine.

The other main bibliometric measure of journal impact on Scopus is the Source Normalised Impact Per Paper (SNIP). This does not take into account where citations are made and so is called a popularity metric. It does however take into account the different citation behaviour of different disciplines i.e. it is well known that in physics and some of the other sciences citations tend to be made more quickly than in the arts/humanities and social sciences.

You can also get bibliometric data on journals based on data from Scopus on a website called Scimago: www.scimagojr.com

This is particularly useful if you want to obtain a list of journals with bibliometric data in a particular field.

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