Comparison of Data Sources (all available to University of Birmingham Staff) Thomson Reuters Scopus/SCImago GoogleScholar & Harzing’s Publish or Perish (PoP) Access Journal Citation Reports (JCR) and Scopus: (subscription service). Harzing’s Publish or Perish (PoP) Web of Science (WoS). (subscription SCImago free http://www.scimagojr.com/ Free. Download PoP software from services). http://www.harzing.com/pop.htm Journal Journal Impact Factor (JIF) (from SCImago Journal Rank Indicator h-index for journals metircs Journal Citation Reports) (SJR). Cites per Doc Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) Author h-index Yes Yes Yes Strengths Longest timespan Better coverage of non-science Best coverage of Open Access Good coverage of sciences subjects. journals, Gives the number of self-citations. Good coverage of humanities Gives number of articles with no and social sciences citations. Best suited to disciplines Gives international collaboration where research is slower to be (number of authors from more than cited. one country. Good coverage of conferences. Limitations Only covers journals and More complicated metrics are more Duplication due to different conference papers. difficult to understand. versions of an article. Cannot search journals by subject category, individual journals only. Further Training material Online tutorials Training material information http://wokinfo.com/training_support/trai http://help.scopus.com/flare/schelp_Left.ht http://libris.nie.edu.sg/sites/default/files/ ning/ m#CSHID=h_bscssrch.htm|StartTopic=Con UserGuide_Publish_or_Perish.pdf MyRI Worksheets Web of Science for tent%2Fh_bscssrch.htm|SkinName=svs_SC MyRI Worksheet Google Scholar and Biliometrics and Journal Citation MyRI Worksheet Scopus Publish or Perish. Reports .