Measuring Research Impact  

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Citation indexes are the most common method of evaluating the impact of research publications by individual authors.  Tools for citation analysis include:

• Web of Science.
• Google Scholar.
• Publish or Perish.
• ScienceDirect.

This guide also provides advice on calculating one's h-Index, a commonly accepted measure of a researcher's overall scholarly output.

A number of tools are available for calculating the impact of journals. 

• Journal Citation Reports provides impact factors for scientific journals.
• The ERA Journal List ranks publications into discipline-specific tiers.
• The Journal Quality List compiled and edited by Dr. Anne-Wil Harzing, covers the areas of economics, finance, accounting, management, and marketing.
• The Association for Information Systems' Journal Rankings edited by Carol Saunders, covers the areas of management information systems.