measuring impact: impact factor, h-index, and altmetrics
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Measuring Impact:Impact Factor, h-index, and altmetrics
Chealsye Bowley, Scholarly Communication LibrarianTexas Woman’s University Libraries
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About me
Chealsye BowleyScholarly Communication Librarian
- Education + training- Copyright consultations- Finding an OA journal- Data management plans
Contact: [email protected] Office: Library 308A
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“No, man, they got the metric system.”
● Impact Factor
● Citations / h-index
● Altmetrics
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Impact Factor
● The average number of times an article in a
particular journal is cited
● Journal-level metric
● Thomson Reuters’ Journal Citation Reports
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index
h-index
● aka H-index or Hirsch index ● Author-level metric● Attempts to measure productivity + impact of
a scholar’s publications
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Altmetrics
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bit.ly/altmetricbookmarklet
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