Tools for impact measurment
There are many tools available for measuring and tracking your research impact. Be aware that comparisons across different tools are not advised, as they may use different algorithms and different citation data to calculate impact.
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- Web of ScienceChoosing "All Databases" allows you to search an index of journal articles, conference proceedings, data sets, and other resources in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
- Google ScholarGoogle Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research.--About Google scholar.
- Harzing's Publish or PerishFrom Harzing.com, a well-known resource in scholarly publishing, this software tool calculates numerous research metrics based on Google Scholar data.
- Author disambiguationDisambiguation from authors with similar names is a challenge in research metrics. There are several tools to deal with this problem.