Citation Metrics and Altmetrics: A Brief Overview (Computers in Libraries 2018)
Citation Metrics and Altmetrics: A Brief Overview Elaine Lasda, Associate Librarian, University at Albany Proprietory resources: Clairvariate anlytics, Scopus, Plumx (bought by elsevier used by Scopus). When Web of Science isn't enough or available. Free resources (see resource guide online at conference site). Citation/Bibliometric tools. Dimensions.ai is an open source citation database like scopus, very similar. Copernio one stop document retrieval browser add-on. Clarivate Analytics - vanit yassessment, but can help id hot otpics and bleeding edge of research. Tough to search for specific journal or researcher. Journalmetrics.com Scopus' CiteScore - Journal metric a ratio like the journal impact factor but includes other than scholarly peer reviewed: includes editorials, conference proceedings, review articles. Percentile rank, citation counts, SNP SJR (SNP supposed to correct for disciplinary differences in impact factor, but only thing that corrects for it reall...