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General background Some time ago, I was reading a blog post, where there was some discussion about how many people read journal articles. I think that such an estimate is important when trying to ass …

To quote Thomsons "a journal's Impact factor is calculated by dividing the number of current year citations to the source items published in that journal during the previous two years." I assume that …

A range of statistics can be useful in providing a quick snapshot of your research productivity. Common statistics include: number of refereed journal publications; number of publications that meet a …

Q1 to Q4 refer to journal ranking quartiles within a subdiscipline using the SJR citation index. Thus, a first quartile journal (i.e., Q1) has an SJR in the top 25% of journals for at least one of i …

This appears to be the algorithm: Order publications by decreasing number of citations Assign a weight to each publication as the inverse of the number of authors (e.g., 1 author paper = 1; 2 author …

While PlosOne ostensibly publishes papers from all fields of science, it is heavily weighted towards biology and medicine. Journals in these fields have higher impact factors because (a) they have mor …

Scopus has an author search option. You can then examine a range of graphs that show academic output over time. Many universities have a subscription to Scopus. As with any citation and publication …

Michael Schreiber proposed the Hm-Index. It is related to the h-index but it adjusts for the number of authors on a paper. So, for instance, if you had two people with a h-index of 10, but one had all …

Although far from perfect, Citation half life is one citation-based indicator often used to quantify how quickly a field or journal is moving. It basically looks at how long a paper takes to get half …

The number of citations generated per year is the product of the number of articles produced in a given year times the average number of references per article. Additionally, when it comes to observed …

Short answer: Scopus have their own database of publications calcuating citations per year, which is different to the trademarked "impact factor". There are also variations between years and between …

You should probably consider Scopus. It has author profiles for most published academics. Many universities subscribe to the database (so check your university library). It also provides greater curat …

Many universities subscribe to Scopus. Scopus make it much easier to identify self-citations. It also makes it easier to identify articles that belong to a given research and export citation of these …

An alternative to looking at impact points that indexes a similar concept is citations in the last full year. This can readily be obtained for anyone with a Google Scholar profile. Author search on Sc …

For a while ResearchGate provided something called impact points. It was calculated as the sum of the impact factors of all the publications an academic had. For example, if an author had been an auth …