Clarivate Analytics provides a list of Highly Cited Researchers who in the last 10-years have authored or co-authored the highest number of highly cited papers (papers placing in the top 1%) for their publications.
Essential Science Indicators is a database that identifies Top, Highly Cited (top 1%) and Hot papers within the Web of Science, and includes field citation rate baselines to allow for benchmarking.
InCites provides the metric % of Documents Cited using Web of Science data to show the percentage of your documents that have been cited at least once.
Publons aims to give researchers recognition for valuable peer review work.
A free Publons profile allows researchers to effortlessly track, verify and showcase their peer review work across journals. Publons is owned by Clarivate Analytics and is available via Web of Science database.
To obtain a profile of your publication metrics (h-index, citations by year, total
citations etc.) search the following databases to see which one best represents
your research outputs:
Additional tools for benchmarking yourself against peers and evaluating
institutional productivity worldwide:
The h-index is a popular metric in the sciences that attempts to qualify the impact and the quantity of a researcher's publication output.
The h-index tends to favour those in a later stage of career or those in fields that actively cite and publish. It can only increase over time and is not a measure of current productivity.
The h-index is equal to the number of publications (h) which have been cited at least h times.
Example: Working our way down the table below we can see this researcher has 5 publications cited at least 5 times. Therefore they have a h-index of 5.
The g-index quantifies scientific productivity based on your publication record. If you have some highly cited papers you might consider using the g-index, as it allows for higher-cited papers to 'make up' for the lower cited ones. The g-index is always at least the h-index, and usually higher.
To find the g-index, rank articles from highest to lowest citations, then find the largest number (the top g articles received together at least g2 citations).
Tip:
If you do use anything other than h-index, it is a good idea to provide information about how it is calculated.
The m-index may help in the comparison of early-career and established researchers.
The m-index equals the h-index divided by the number of years of activity.
If your m-index rates comparatively to the m-index of research leaders in your field, you could highlight this. Note that the m-index inherently assumes unbroken research activity since the first publication.
Tip:
If you do use anything other than h-index, it is a good idea to provide information about how it is calculated.
Use Web of Science, Scopus or Google Scholar to calculate your h-index and citation rates for your publications.
Note: Your h-index may be different in each database due to differences in content coverage and frequency of updates.
| Web of Science |
Note: On your Citation report page, restrict the report to a specific time period using the drop down boxes at the top of your publication list. Citation data is available since 1980. |
| Scopus |
Note 1: On your Citation overview page, restrict the overview to a specific time period using the drop down boxes at the top of the page. |
| Google Scholar |
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The journal coverage of Web of Science and Scopus: a comparative analysis
Google Scholar, Scopus and the Web of Science: a longitudinal and cross-disciplinary comparison
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