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Scholarly Metrics
Tahirah Akbar-Williams, Mark Cyzyk, Robin Sinn
The Sheridan Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
Introduction
What are scholarly metrics? Why are they important? Our history of scholarly metrics
presentations
Journal Metrics
The crucial importance of the citation Journal impact factors Journal Citation Reports (JCR) Eigenfactor.org
Article Metrics
Citation counts Traditional Value neutral Database dependent
Different Databases, Different Counts
Web of Science
Google ScholarScopus
Newer Article Metrics
Views Downloads Shares Twitter mentions Blog mentions
Author Metrics
Author impact factors, H-Indexes, etc. Google Scholar Web of Science
AThe Author• Tracking the impact of
your work
• --Who is citing your work
• --How influential is your work
• Our platforms are not exhaustive
• -journals vs. the web
• H-Index-
• --H- index 20 means you have 20 items that have been cited at least 20 times
• Researcher ID
• --Establish your distinguish ID
gGoogle Scholar
Web of Science
Alt Metrics Quantifying social media citation Immediacy Impact or Popularity?
The SPARC Chart
Disciplinary Differences The Sciences The Social Sciences The Humanities
Conclusion
The Limitations: No database is global; disciplinary differences; different metrics yield different numbers!
What librarians should be doing with scholarly metrics
Our LibGuide:
http://guides.library.jhu.edu/metrics