measuring impact: impact factor, h-index, and altmetrics

Measuring Impact:Impact Factor, h-index, and altmetrics

Chealsye Bowley, Scholarly Communication LibrarianTexas Woman’s University Libraries

CC-BY flickr user Thomas Shahan

About me

Chealsye BowleyScholarly Communication Librarian

- Education + training- Copyright consultations- Finding an OA journal- Data management plans

Contact: cbowley@twu.edu Office: Library 308A

CC-BY John R. McKiernan, whyopenresearch.org

“No, man, they got the metric system.”

● Impact Factor

● Citations / h-index

● Altmetrics

Slide inspired by Josh Bolick, KU Libraries; gif from Pulp Fiction

CC-BY John R. McKiernan, whyopenresearch.org

Impact Factor

● The average number of times an article in a

particular journal is cited

● Journal-level metric

● Thomson Reuters’ Journal Citation Reports

CC-BY flickr user arenamontanus

index

h-index

● aka H-index or Hirsch index ● Author-level metric● Attempts to measure productivity + impact of

a scholar’s publications

CC-BY flickr user soham_plablo

Altmetrics

Chart CC-BY Micah Vandegrift

bit.ly/altmetricbookmarklet

Questions?

Upcoming Workshops

Research Data Management + Sharing 4/12

Further Info

Can’t attend a workshop? Got further questions?Get in touch!

cbowley@twu.edu | @chealsye