“In 1955, it did not occur to me that “impact” would one day become so controversial. Like nuclear energy, the

impact factor is a mixed blessing. I expected it to be used constructively while recognizing that in the wrong hands it

might be abused.”

Eugene Garfield

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Journal Citation Reports

SCIMago Journal Rank (SJR)

“A scientist has index h if h of his/her Np papers have at least h citations each, and the other (Np − h) papers have no more than h citations each.”

h-index

Limited to 12,000 WoS journals Strong in natural and health sciences,

medicine, chemistry and physics Weaker in social sciences & humanities Less coverage of conferences, books &

non-English sources Variations in author names

Web of Science

Introduced in 2004 by Elsevier 18,500 peer-reviewed journals

(including 1,800 Open Access journals)

Strong in science, social sciences, weak in humanities

Scopus

Free, quick, easy to use and comprehensive

Includes conference papers, theses, books, chapters etc

Not very open about sources Weaker for older publications

Google Scholar

My Citations – set up a profile to automatically retrieve publications and citations

Includes citations counts, H-Index & i10 Index

Future publications and citations automatically updated

Google Scholar Citations

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