Scientometrics
Scopus
Scopus, a database of Elsevier, is the world’s largest universal abstract and citation database with tools for tracking the citation of scientific publications. It includes more than 60 million records, including over 100,000 books, 7 million conference papers, and approximately 27 million patents.
The easiest way to find citation metrics in Scopus is to use the Author Search.
Enter the author’s last name and initials. If there are transliteration difficulties, use the “” wildcard in ambiguous places: Mialov (Mikhailov), Sharinskaa (Sharinskaya). To refine the search, you can enter a word from the organization’s name in the “Affiliation” field.
In the results list, find the required profile. To view authors who have only one publication, click Show Profile Matches with One Document (above the results list).
To access the author profile, select the relevant profile in the results list and follow the link from the author’s name. On the author profile page, you will see the researcher’s publications, citation counts, and the h-index.
Incorrect data in Scopus can be corrected independently:
To evaluate journals in the Scopus database, not the impact factor but alternative metrics — SJR and SNIP — are used.
SJR (SCImago Journal Ranking): A journal ranking developed by the University of Granada that takes into account not only the total number of citations but also weighted citation indicators over time and qualitative factors such as the prestige of citations. For example, the weight of a citation from the journal Nature to an article in journal “A” differs from the weight of a citation to the same article from a little-known Russian journal that has few or no citations in Scopus.
SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): Developed by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), this indicator reflects the contextual citation impact of a journal. It allows direct comparison of journals from different subject areas by taking into account the frequency with which authors cite other sources, the speed at which citation influence develops, and the extent to which the literature of a given field is covered by the database.
Web of Science
Web of Science by Clarivate Analytics is an information and analytical platform covering more than 50 million records from 12,500 journals worldwide and 120,000 conference proceedings in the fields of natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, and arts. The Web of Science platform hosts several databases, including the Web of Science Core Collection, the Russian Science Citation Index, as well as analytical tools that help evaluate information using various criteria (InCites, Journal Citation Reports, Essential Citation Reports).
To register on the Web of Science platform, select the “Sign In” button in the upper right corner, then choose “Register” and follow the instructions. Please note that the login and password are the same for all Web of Science products, including EndNote Online and ResearcherID.
The h-index is a key scientometric indicator of the effectiveness of a researcher’s or organization’s scientific activity, calculated based on citation counts. The h-index equals n if at least n publications of an author or organization have been cited by at least n papers. To determine the h-index in the Web of Science Core Collection:
- Find the publications to be analyzed
- Create a citation report
- The resulting window will display the calculated citation metrics
To correct incorrectly displayed publication information in Web of Science, you need to contact the support service (the language of the request is English).
The journal impact factor is a scientometric indicator that determines the importance of a scientific journal. It is calculated for a specific period. There are two ways to determine a journal’s impact factor in the Web of Science Core Collection:
Use the search by publication name, having first selected the Web of Science Core Collection database.
In the list of publications that opens, click on the journal title.
- Use the Journal Citation Reports citation reports
The InCites analytical platform is designed to compare research productivity and impact using bibliometric indicators based on Web of Science data.
Journal Citation Reports (JCR) are annual citation reports that provide comprehensive information about journals indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, as well as the ability to compare them and search by specified parameters (impact factor, subject area, title).
Essential Science Indicators (ESI) are key science metrics that make it possible to identify the most influential research and view the most highly cited authors, institutions, and countries.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar is a freely accessible search engine that indexes the full text of scholarly publications across all formats and disciplines.
Google Scholar allows users to easily perform comprehensive searches of scholarly literature. Using a single search interface, it is possible to search across multiple disciplines and sources, including peer-reviewed articles, theses, books, abstracts, and reports published by academic publishers, professional associations, universities, and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps identify research that most closely matches a search query among a vast body of scholarly works.
Google Scholar ranks articles in a manner similar to researchers, evaluating the full text of each article, its author, the publication in which it appeared, and the frequency with which the work is cited in scholarly literature. The most relevant results are always displayed on the first page.
h-index, or Hirsch index
The journal impact factor is the average number of citations per article. It is calculated using the following formula:
the ratio of the number of citations in the reporting year to articles published in the previous two years to the total number of those articles.
Journal impact factor
The h-index, or Hirsch index, is a scientometric indicator proposed in 2005 by Jorge Hirsch to assess scientific productivity. The index is calculated based on the distribution of citations according to the following formula:
A scientist (or research group) has an h-index of h if h of their Np papers have each been cited at least h times, while the remaining (Np − h) papers have each been cited no more than h times.
A journal ranking developed by the University of Granada that takes into account not only the total number of citations but also weighted citation indicators over the years and qualitative factors such as the prestige of citations. For example, the weight of a citation from the journal Nature to an article in journal “A” differs from the weight of a citation to the same article from a little-known Russian journal that has few or no citations in Scopus.
The SNIP metric was developed by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS). It reflects the contextual citation impact of a journal and allows direct comparison of journals from different subject areas by taking into account the frequency with which authors cite other sources, the speed at which citation influence develops, and the extent to which the literature of a given field is covered by the database.
Annual citation reports provide comprehensive information about journals indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, as well as the ability to compare them and search by specified parameters (impact factor, subject area, title).
SciVal (Elsevier)
SciVal is an analytical resource designed to enhance an organization’s competitiveness in research activities. It provides fast access to the overview, analysis, and monitoring of research performance across 220 countries and 4,600 research organizations worldwide, as well as groups of countries, organizations, and researchers, and includes the modules “Overview,” “Benchmarking,” and “Collaboration.”
InCites (Clarivate Analitics)
The InCites analytical platform is designed to compare research productivity and impact using bibliometric indicators based on Web of Science data.
Essential Science Indicators (Clarivate Analitics)
Essential Science Indicators (ESI) key science metrics make it possible to identify the most influential research and view the most highly cited authors, institutions, and countries.