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Research impact metrics

 

Author citations count & H-index
  • For the research scientist or research group, citation counts will show how many citations their papers have received over a selected time period and how the number of citations compares to that of other researchers or groups of researchers.
  • Citation counts are considered as vital for evaluations and peer reviews. However, citation comparisons are only meaningful when comparing researchers in the same area of research and at similar stages in their career. 
  • The H-Index, proposed by Jorge Hirsch in 2005, looks at the number of articles by an author (or group) and the number of times those articles have been cited. 
  • The h-index is calculated where h number of articles have been cited h or more times e.g. an h-index of 10 means an author has ten articles that have each received ten or more citations.​

h-index in Scopus 

  • Open Scopus and search by author name. 
  • Scopus automatically assigns a Scopus Author-ID to all authors. Make sure to merge all your name formats under one profile. For example, the other format names for Zakhem, Henri El are : Zakhem, Henri ; El Zakhem, H. ; El Zakhem, Henri.
  • UN Sustainable Development Goals have been added to the author profile pages on Scopus , SDGs can be found in the Impact tab 

           

 

 

h-index in Google Scholar

  • It is useful for subject areas not well covered in Scopus including other types of content, outside of books and articles, not found in the scholarly databases.
  • Click sign up to create your Google Scholar Citations Profile now. It is quick and free. (P.S. having a google account is mandatory).
  • Your publications will be more visible and grouped under one profile. In addition, you can see the number of publications citing your works. 
  • In order to include all your publications in Google Scholar, you can add your articles manually once you create your Google Scholar Citations profile.
  • i-10-index is a simple way to measure the productivity of a scholar by counting the number of publications with at least 10 citations.