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Measuring impact

Measuring your impact is about identifying evidence that your work is influencing either other scholars or the wider world. Most research will be best represented using a combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches to measure impact, although this can differ vastly by field.

Explore the tools below to find metrics relevant to your field.

Tools	Good for	Tips/Tutorials
Scopus	journal, article and author metrics	Scopus metrics guide
SciVal	productivity metrics (e.g. scholarly output and h-indices); citation impact metrics (e.g. citation count, cites per publication, field weighted citation impact, outputs in top percentiles) collaborative metrics (e.g. collaboration impact, academic-corporate collaboration).	SciVal at a glance
Web of Science	journal, article and author metrics	Web of Science metrics guide
InCites	productivity metrics (e.g. scholarly output and h-indices) citation impact metrics (e.g. citation count, cites per publication, category normalised citation impact CNCI, outputs in top percentiles) collaborative metrics (e.g. % of international and industry collaborations)	Incites: Learn the Basics Incites works best when used with a ResearcherID or ORCID
Google Scholar's MyCitations	compiling a list of all your publications and generating metrics (e.g. total citations, h-index and citations over time)	Setting up your Google Scholar Profile Google Scholar "My Citations" (video tutorial)
Journal Citation Reports (JCR)	finding journal impact factor (JIF) and quartiles and JIF percentiles relevant for all disciplines (excluding the Arts and Humanities)
Essential Science Indicators	finding 'top', 'hot' and 'highly cited' indicators, field baselines, and citation thresholds relevant for 22 broad disciplines	Essential Science Indicators: Learn the Basics
Altmetric for Institutions	tracking the online attention to outputs from various web services (e.g. Twitter, Mendeley, research blogs and policy documents) useful to build a narrative around research and for developing effective dissemination and engagement strategies relevant for outputs in ROS that have a DOI	How to Use Altmetrics for Promotion and Tenure always look at the qualitative data behind the numbers on the Altmetric.com donut to view who is engaging with your research and what is being discussed