Cited Reference Searching & Acceptance Rates

Eigenfactor ranks journals much as Google ranks websites. It uses data from the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) database as part of creating the Eigenfactor score. This site provides rankings for all the JCR journals as well as 100,000 references cited by those journals.

This tool can be used to see the most heavily cited articles in a specific publication (according to Google Scholar) and to see the median times cited for their articles. This could be helpful for finding median article citation rates for newer journals, proceedings, or other publications that are not covered by Impact Factors.

Wikipedia article explaining the basics of the h-index. Shows how to calculate your own h-index. This metric is useful because it discounts the disproportionate weight of highly cited papers or papers that have not yet been cited.

Wikipedia entry on impact factors. Gives a nice overview, pros and cons, cautions, etc.

This portal includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus® database. These indicators could be used to assess and analyze scientific domains, similar to Google PageRank.

The g-index was introduced as an improvement of the h-index of Hirsch to measure the global citation performance of a set of articles.

In Collaboration with the American Society for Cell Biology, the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment is looking at other metrics than Journal Impact Factor to address the need to improve the ways in which the outputs of scientific research are evaluated. On May 17, 2013 DORA passed a declaration on Research Impact. See the DORA homepage for more information.

By Lucinda A. McDade, et al., BioScience, Vol. 61, No. 8 (August 2011), pp. 619-625. Authors are stressing the importance of validating and getting P&T credit for nontraditional creations such as: curatorial work on specimens; and contributions to online resources, such as knowledge compendia, images, software, and data sets.

June 2008. This is a report about the use and misuse of citation data in the assessment of scientific research.

By Carl Bergstrom in C&RL News, May 2007, 68 (5). Available free on the web - be patient - may load slowly.

By Anne-Wil Harzing and Ron van der Wal (2007, in press). Preprint of an article accepted for publication in Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics. Available free on the web.

Free web-based article by Jason Priem and Bradley M. Hemminger in First Monday, volume 15, number 7 - 5 July 2010. Covers Web 2.0 services like social bookmarking and microblogging. Metrics based on this data could build a “Scientometrics 2.0,” supporting richer and more timely pictures of articles’ impact. This paper develops the most comprehensive list of these services to date.

By Richard Monastersky in The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 14, 2005.