Citation Analysis and Bibliometrics
The following resources help you gauge the importance of an article or a journal.
Citation Analysis
A citation analysis is a bibliometric study that measures how often a published work is cited.
- Google Scholar Citations
This is a free tool for tracking online citations.
- Publish or Perish
This is a software program that retrieves citations through Google Scholar for analysis.
Journal Impact Factor
- High Impact Science Journals
Science Gateway hosts a web site listing of high impact science journals.
Guides and resources
- Citation Searching and Bibliometric Measures: Resources for Ranking and Tracking
This is an annotated list of resources about citation analysis and impact metrics.
- Users, Narcissism and Control – Tracking the Impact of Scholarly Publications in the 21st Century
This report discusses and assesses 16 different citation tracking tools.
- Altmetrics: A Manifesto
This page focuses on the creation and study of new Web-based metrics for analyzing and informing scholarship.
