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Personal Impact Factor and H-Index Calculations: Impact Factor and Cited Reference Searching
A guide explaining the process for calculating your personal impact factor and for more guidance on impact factor in general.
Impact Factors and Cited Reference Searching Databases
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Google Scholar enables you to search for peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts, and technical reports from broad areas of research. Use it to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
Note: Identify papers that cite an article of interest in by following its "Cited by" link. Please read How to Connect to Full Text in Google Scholar for access information. - Journal Citation Reports This link opens in a new windowJournal Citation Reports (JCR) is a unique tool published by the Institute for Scientific Information. It delivers quantifiable statistical data (impact factors) that provides a systematic, objective way to determine the relative importance of journals within their subject categories.
- Scopus This link opens in a new windowA large interdisciplinary database that provides citations and abstracts for journal articles in thousands of subjects. Citation information is tracked back to 1996, allowing you to identify articles that reference earlier articles, calculate metrics such as the h-index and compare journal citation information.
- Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new windowSociological Abstracts (1952 - ) provides access to the world's literature in sociology and related disciplines.
- Web of Science This link opens in a new windowA large interdisciplinary database that includes the Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
