The purpose of article-level metrics is to establish the impact of an article. The most common way of evaluating this is to count the number of times an article has been cited in other articles.
Cited references in all disciplines in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Drawn from the top 15% of scholarly journals in more than 250 categories.
Web of Science Core Collection includes: Citation Indexes, Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Conference Proceedings Citation Index–Science, Conference Proceedings Citation Index–Social Science & Humanities, Book Citation Index–Science, Book Citation Index–Social Sciences & Humanities, Emerging Sources Citation Index, Current Chemical Reactions, Index Chemicus.
BIOSIS Citation Index: covering pre-clinical and experimental research, methods and instrumentation, animal studies, and more.
Current Contents Connect: tables of contents and bibliographic information from leading scholarly journals and books.
Data Citation Index: data sets from a wide range of international data repositories
Derwent Innovations Index: patents and patent citations.
KCI-Korean Journal Database: managed by the National Research Foundation of Korea.
MEDLINE: managed by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Russian Science Citation Index: managed by the Scientific Electronic Library (eLIBRARY.RU), Russia's largest research information provider.
SciELO Citation Index: open access journals from Latin American, Portugal, Spain and South Africa.
Zoological Record: taxonomic records, oldest continuing database of animal biology.
Popular features:
Author search and disambiguation
Search by affiliation, funding agency, chemical structure, cited references and more
Times cited (# of times an article has been cited by later articles)
Citation reports for authors
Saved searches, search alerts, and citation alerts
Journal impact factors
Includes numerous bibliographic indexes, including Science Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index information all the way back to 1900!
Authors can track their own publications (tracking of other authors' works is only possible if they have a profile).
The types of metrics utilized are a simple citation count, h-index, and i10-index.
Set up automatic updates to the citation metrics.
Manually update your profile.
View information on citations for other authors by doing a search for them in Google Scholar and the scholarly metrics information will be listed under the citation information.
Other citation-tracking tools
These specialized databases can supplement other cited reference searches:
Search from the author search tab, search Author Profile to see a citation count for the ten most-cited works. Covers only selected publications indexed from around the year 2000.
Cited References when available appear in article record, left column. Click to see times each reference cited in the PsychInfo database, beginning around the year 2000.
Search by title, click on the box next to the article on the results page, click on the drop-down box near the top of the page and change it from "Display" to “Cited in PMC.”