Measuring Your Research Impact

This guide presents the tools that are available to measure the quantitative and qualitative impact of research; as well as how to track researcher impact.

Questions about Research Metrics?

Potentially, any database with citations could create bibliometric measures. Each database that offers bibliometric measures primarily uses its own unique data, journals, authority files, indexes, and subject categories. Citation behaviour varies between disciplines as one discipline is different to another.

There is currently no overarching tool across databases.

Further reading: The diverse world of citation indexing services