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Research Metrics

This guide discusses the common metrics that are used to measure the impact of research. It also introduces the researcher to Scopus: a bibliometric tool that can be used to analse research impact at journal, article and author levels.

Measuring Journal Impact

Based on Scopus; Journal Metrics include:

  • CiteScore metrics
  • SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) 
  • Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

 

An Example of Journal of Dairy Science Metrics in Scopus (23/02/2022)

 

 

CiteScore Metrics: has eight indicators: CiteScore, CiteScore Tracker, CiteScore Percentile, CiteScore Quartiles, CiteScore Rank, Citation Count, Document Count, and Percentage Cited. These are used to analyse the impact of a peer-reviewed research: articles, reviews, conference papers, data papers and book chapters, covering 4 years of citations and publications.

 

 

 

 

SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): is used to measure the number of times an average paper in a particular journal is cited.

 

 

 

 

 

Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): is used to measure the contextual citation impact by taking differences in disciplinary characteristics into account. It is used to compare journals in different fields. It is measured by weighting citations based on the total number of citations in a subject field.

 

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