Claire created a new LibGuide related to bibliometrics outlining the different types of metrics (author, article, journal) but some additional notes are below:
Overview:
- Bibliometrics are farily new – 2005
- Scholarship is not easy to quantify – there are concerns with each metric
- Citations don’t measure quality … they measure popularity
Author-Level Metrics
- H-index – author has published at least h papers that have each received at least h citations
- Ways to brag about what a great author you are
- Concerns – SEE LIBGUIDE LINK
- Tools – Google Scholar and Scopus
- Scopus – we’re limited to viewing one author or one journal at a time
- Without full access, we can’t compare authors or see all journals in a discipline
- Clarivate analytics doesn’t give you any real access
- Google scholar will pull in things that aren’t very scholarly (websites ex. may be counted as citations)
- Google Scholar profile – link it to your personal gmail account (in case you ever leave FHSU)
- Google will do an initial search for your scholarly work
Article-Level Metrics
- Uses – seminal articles – often used for course readings and can help you identify articles for that
- Tools – SEE EXAMPLE LINKS
- Google – includes websites and some other resources outside of just
- Primo – doesn’t include any articles that we don’t have. Better use for finding articles that you want to read
- Altmetrics
- SEE LIBGUIDE
- Altmetric – as long as you have a DOI, there’s a bookmarklet (Chrome extension) that lets you see almetric stats
- Sometimes altmetrics are incorporated into databases (ex. Science Direct brings in PlumX
- Captures = captures in Mendeley for citation management
Journal Level-Metrics
- More proprietary journal level metrics
- H-index is most common
- Journal has published at least h papers that has received h citations
- Also H-3 or H-5 index. Measures h-index in last 3 years of 5 years.
- Makes it easier to compare newer journals vs. older journals
- Journal advantages = those that publish literature reviews; journals disadvantages = those that publish conference proceedings
- Impact factor is the most common one we’ve heard of but it is proprietary to Clarivate Analytics
- If we had the data we could probably calculate it ourselves
- 2-year is the standard impact factor
- Scimago Journal Rank = proprietary to Elsevier
- We couldn’t calculate it ourselves because they giver more weight to prestigious journals
