Bibliometrics

Popular Sources 

Google Scholar

Use (Cited By) in the search results. Google Scholar includes citations from an array of sources in its cited by calculation, including PowerPoints and Word documents. 

Scopus

Use (Citations) or (View Citation Overview) in the search results. 

Web of Science

Use (Cited by) in the results list or the Cited Reference Search tab. (Times Cited) in result list. Web of Science searches the following indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI), Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Science (CPCI-S), Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH), Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Current Chemical Reactions (CCR-EXPANDED), Index Chemicus (IC). 

More Sources 

IEEE Xplore

Includes (Cited by) options and metrics by date. 

JSTOR

Use (Citation Locator) (Items Citing this Item) in the search results. 

ProQuest

Available from some ProQuest databases. 

PubMed

Use (Cited by in PubMedCentral) in the search results. 

ScienceDirect  

To access the (Citing articles), select an individual article first and use the options on the left-hand side of the screen. 

Altmetrics

• Altmetrics provides information at the article level on social/online reach and includes information derived from: page views, downloads, shares, tweets, blog posts, news articles etc.
• Altmetric Bookmarklet is a free tool that allows you to instantly get article level metrics for any paper (with a DOI) for free. Download the bookmarklet here.  

Benefits: 

Altmetrics provides instantaneous information on dissemination and online reach of articles. It is more immediate than traditional article metrics (ie citations) which can take years to gather. 

Covers a wider range of sources especially conferences, technical reports and eprints. 

Easier to calculate some of the less common metrics since it is not linked to proprietary data. 

Disadvantages: 

May be considered less authoritative than citation metrics.

Citation Tracking:

• enables you to track a journal article of interest and see which subsequent articles have cited your original article
• allows you to see the reach of your research and can be useful when you want to see how your original article has been discussed and received by the research community
• looks at a single article and the subsequent articles that have cited it. 

Web of Science 

To track citations within Web of Science: 

1. Go to Web of Science
2. Click on the Cited Reference Search link
3. Search for the relevant journal article. Web of Science will present you with a list of matching articles. Sometimes there are a number of different citations. These are usually the results of minor citation errors by article authors.
4. Select all that apply and click Finish Search.

You will then be presented with a complete list of articles that have cited your original research. 

Scopus 

The Cited Reference Search Tutorial shows you how to track a citation using Scopus. To track citations within Scopus: 

Search Scopus for your article. 

In the 'Cited By' column on the results page, click on the linked number, e.g. '20', to view the details of articles that have cited your original article. 

Click on 'View Citation Overview' to see a table showing citations over time, and to obtain citation metrics.

Google Scholar 

Google Scholar offers citation totals for journal articles and other items in its database.

To track the citations within Google Scholar:

1. Search for the article
2. If the article has been cited by another source, a Cited by link will appear below the article entry in Scholar's search results
3.  Click the Cited by link.

Determining where to publish your research to gain the highest impact in your field is increasingly more important and becoming more difficult. There are tools available to help you determine which reputable journals will give you the most benefit. 

Things to consider when choosing your Journal: 

• Relevance to the discipline and if it will reach your desired audience. 
• The quality of the journal and its prestige. 

 Journal quality can be impacted by various factors: 

• Does it qualify for ERA assessment? 

The ERA Journal lists contain a mediated list of journals with coverage of the Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC) Fields of Research. Choosing journals eligible for inclusion in the ERA assessment is suggested. 

• Is it indexed in Scopus or Web of Science? 

Indexing in Scopus and Web of Science is an indication of journal quality. Indexing in large databases also increases your potential audience thus potentially impacting citation rates. 

• Impact Factor & Scopus Journal Analyzer 

The Impact Factor and SCImago Journal Ranking (SJR) are two common measurements or rankings of journal quality. Both measures look at the number of citations the journal has received. SJR also takes into account prestige in its measures.

Journal Impact Factor 

The Journal Impact Factor (JIF) provides a view of journal performance using Clarivate Analytics citation data. The impact factor attempts to measure the quality of a journal in terms of its influence on the academic community and is based on citation count. In general, the higher the impact factor, the more important and prestigious the journal within its particular field. A journal's impact factor is defined by a simple calculation: By dividing the number of current citations to articles published in the two previous years by the total number of articles published in the two previous years. Journal Citation Reports (JCR) provides access to journal lists with Impact Factors. 

When comparing impact factors you need to compare similar authors in the same discipline, using the same database, using the same method. 

Be sure to indicate limitations. 

JCR (Journal Citation Reports)  

Bibliometric citation data (inc. no. of articles, citations & impact factor) for more than 12,000 scholarly and technical journals and conference proceedings from more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries. Includes virtually all specialties in the areas of science, technology, and social sciences. 

Watch the video:  Journal Citation Reports: Impact Factor, a Clarivate Journal Citation Reports training video. 

Scopus Journal Analyzer 

The Journal Analyzer provides a view of journal performance using Scopus citation data and includes two new journal metrics—SJR and SNIP. Using citations from nearly 18,000 titles from 5,000 international publishers, the Journal Analyzer goes back to 1996. 

The Journal Analyzer is only available through a paid subscription to Scopus from Elsevier. Journal Analyzer also contains the SNIP and SJR scores. 

You can use Journal Analyzer to compare up to 10 Scopus sources on a variety of parameters: 

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank) - measures the scientific prestige of a scholarly source by assigning a relative score based on a citation network. Available from within the Scopus database (click on Journal Analyzer link) or from the SCImago web site. 

SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper) - measures contextual citation impact by weighting citations based on the total number of citations in a subject field. Available from within the Scopus database (click on Journal Analyzer link) or from the SNIP web site. 

Citations - compare sources by the number of times a source has been cited. 

Documents - compare sources by the number of documents published in a year. 

% not cited - compare sources by the percentage of documents published in a year that have never been cited to date. 

Scopus  

Scopus is an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature including scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Focus is on the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities. 

ERA Journal Lists 

ERA (Excellence in Research for Australia) is the national assessment of Universities research outputs and occurs every 2-3 years. The ERA Journal lists produced by this assessment list journals that qualify for assessment for the ERA reference period. This mediated list is a place to start or to refer to when you are selecting your journal. The ERA 2015 list is not currently publicly available. If you are a staff member of Flinders University, you can access the list via FAN authentication here. 

ERA 2012 Journal List 

The citation data for the 2012 ERA process used Scopus.

The ERA 2012 Journal List defines the journals that are eligible for institutions’ ERA 2012 submissions. The criteria for inclusion in the list are journals that are scholarly, peer reviewed journals that publish original research and were active during the ERA 2012 reference period for research outputs (1 January 2005 – 31 December 2010).

Multidisciplinary lists 

• Essential Science Indicators includes titles indexed by Web of Science. Titles are divided into 22 broad subject categories. Provides total number of papers, citations and cites per paper 
• Journal Citation Reports includes over 12,000 journals. Citation data taken from Web of Science. Includes impact factor, total citations and articles and cited half-life 
• Scopus Journal Analyzer covers over 16,000 journals from Scopus database. Includes SJR, SNIP, total citations, articles published and articles not cited. Compare up to 10 Scopus sources on a variety of parameters   

Subject-specific 

• Australian Business Deans Council journal ratings list includes of 2600 titles. Reviewed by a panel of discipline experts. Includes list aligned to FoR codes. 
• European Reference Index for the Humanities covers core humanities disciplines. Highlights range of research published in the European languages. Includes journals of national and international categories. 
• Journal Quality List is a collation of journal rankings from various sources. Covers journals in economics, finance, accounting, management and marketing. Compiled and edited by Professor Anne Harzing. 
• SENSE Benchmarks for Publication Output ranks book publishers. Publishers are categorised as A, B and C. A joint venture of the environmental research institutes of ten Dutch universities.

Ranked Journal List 

Freely available ranked journal lists uses tools SCImago Journal Rank List, Google Scholar metrics and Eigenfactor. 

SCImago Journal Rank List 

SCImago journal rank (SJR) is a journal quality tool developed by Scopus. The Scimago Journal & Country Rank  website uses this Scopus data to provide a simple interface that provides a ranked list of journals by quartile. 

Scopus® Subject Areas and Subject Categories: Journals are assigned to 27 major thematic categories as well as to 313 specific subject categories according to Scopus® Classification. You can use these to narrow the output set 

Definition: The SCImago Journal Rank seeks to measure the prestige of a journal and is a measure of scientific influence of scholarly journals that accounts for both the number of citations received by a journal and the importance or prestige of the journals where such citations come from. 

Limitations: This list is Subject/Discipline specific, you cannot compare rankings across discipline areas. If you work in a multidisciplinary area and have a list of journals you need to compare you can use SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper) from within Scopus to compare Journals across disciplines. 

Google Scholar metrics 

Seeks to provide an easy way for authors to quickly gauge the visibility and influence of recent articles in scholarly publications. Scholar Metrics summarise recent citations to many publications, to help authors as they consider where to publish their new research. You can browse the top 100 publications in several languages, ordered by their five-year h-index and h-median metrics. To see which articles in a publication were cited the most and who cited them, click on its h-index number to view the articles as well as the citations underlying the metrics. 

Browse by research area by selecting one of the broad areas and drilling down into the subcategories. 

Definition: Information on the underlying data on which the metrics are based can be found here. 

Limitations: This list is Subject/Discipline specific, you cannot compare rankings across discipline areas. If you work in a multidisciplinary area and have a list of journals you need to compare you can use SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper) from within Scopus to compare Journals across disciplines. 

Eigenfactor 

The Eigenfactor.org website provides a freely available, searchable database of Eigenfactor scores and Article Influence scores for the numerous journals covered in Thomson-Reuters Journal Citation Reports. Eigenfactor uses ISI Category (Clarivate) subject discipline categories. Eigenfactor scores are scaled so that the sum of the Eigenfactor scores of all journals listed in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports (JCR) is 100. 

Definition: A journal's Eigenfactor score measures its importance to the scientific community. Journals are rated according to the number of incoming citations, with citations from highly ranked journals weighted to make a larger contribution to the eigenfactor than those from poorly ranked journals. As a measure of importance, the Eigenfactor score scales with the total impact of a journal. All else equal, journals generating higher impact to the field have larger Eigenfactor scores. 

Limitations: This list is Subject/Discipline specific, you cannot compare rankings across discipline areas. If you work in a multidisciplinary area and have a list of journals you need to compare you can use SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper) from within Scopus to compare Journals across disciplines. 

Article Influcence Score (Eigenfactor) 

The mean Article Influence Score is 1.00.  An Article Influence Score greater than 1.00 indicates that the articles in a journal have an above-average influence. 

Definition: Measures the average influence, per article, of the papers published in a journal. Calculated by dividing the Eigenfactor by the number of articles published in the journal.   

Limitations: This list is Subject/Discipline specific, you cannot compare rankings across discipline areas. If you work in a multidisciplinary area and have a list of journals you need to compare you can use SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper) from within Scopus to compare Journals across disciplines. 

Why should I work on my online academic profile?

Your online academic profile is the combination of your research output and professional activity. Without it, it’s almost impossible to measure and demonstrate your impact. Do it now, do it early and it will save you time when it comes to that next grant application or promotion round.

Creating and maintaining your online academic profile will: 

• Help the academic community and beyond connect with and cite your work 
• Increase your ability to track and measure your impact across multiple platforms 
• Ensure that your work and its impact is correctly connected and traceable to you  
• Help you find, and be found by, new collaborators and sources of funding 

Researcher Publication Profile Management 

Ensuring your online research profiles aggregate your publications together will give you an accurate and timely overview of your citation impact.

Institutional impact measures the collective citation frequency (collective impact) of the institution or department within the institution. This allows benchmarking against other institutions or departments of similar size and/or prestige. The Australian Government seeks to measure the research quality of Australian Tertiary Institutions through the ERA (Excellence in Research for Australia) process. 

Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) assesses research quality within Australia's higher education sector. It is managed by the Australian Research Council (ARC).

ERA assessment 

Conducted across 8 discipline clusters, within Field of Research (FoR). 

Institutions allocate their research output into these codes. 

Each Field of Research is assessed using either citations or peer-review as appropriate to that particular field. 

Assessment is on a range of indicators, not just publications. 

ERA rankings 

Each FoR is evaluated against world standard research in that field. 

Scale is 5 (well above world standard) through to 1 (well below world standard). 

A rating of 3 indicates research conducted is at a world standard. 

Rankings occur at a 2- and 4-digit FoR level.

World Rankings 

Academic Ranking of World Universities
Developed by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, using six indicators to rank world universities: 

Alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals. 

Highly cited researchers. 

Articles published in journals of Nature and Science. 

Articles indexed in SCI and SSCI. 

Per capita performance with respect to the size of an institution. 

View the ARWU website. 

Times Higher Education World University Rankings
Powered by Thomson Reuters, comparing university performance across: 

Teaching and learning environment from the student and academic perspective. 

Research volume, income and reputation (from academic reputation survey). 

Number of citations (as indexed in Web of Science). 

Industry income. 

Ratio of international to domestic students and staff, and international collaboration. 

View the World University Rankings website. 

Essential Science Indicators
Accessed via Web of Knowledge platform, ESI allows you to: 

Analyze research performance of companies, institutions, nations, and journals. 

Identify significant trends in the sciences and social sciences. 

Rank top countries, journals, scientists, papers, and institutions by field of research. 

Determine research output and impact in specific fields of research. 

See more information on ESI.

InCites 

InCites™ is a customized, web-based research evaluation tool that allows users to analyze institutional productivity and benchmark output against peers worldwide. InCites is produced by Clarivate and uses bibliographic record and citation data generated from Web of Science, and Journal Citation Reports. 

It allows for individual, collective, and institutional data and generating reports for such purposes as: 

• comparing individual publication metrics to others in similar fields at different institutions 
• analyzing researcher productivity and collaboration activity 
• specialisations and subject strengths 
• trends and time series analysis 

Considerations: 

• InCites™ presents a snapshot of data at a particular point in time. You can view when a dataset was last updated by looking in the My Datasets link. 
• Coverage is limited to Web of Science and Journal Citation Report data. 
• You may need to update/create a ResearcherID to properly manage your publication information. 

 Register

Though you can access Web of Science and Journal Citation Reports via the Library databases links with your FAN and password, InCites requires an additional registration. You must register with Clarivate to use InCites™.
 

InCites Training and Support 

InCites Training Videos 

InCites Benchmarking & Analytics: Quick Tour

InCites B&A: How to Evaluate Institutional Collaborations

InCites B&A: How to Evaluate Regional Collaborations

InCites B&A: Explore Organizations Introduction

InCites B&A: Explore Organizations, Part 2

InCites B&A: Identifying Peer Institutions

InCites B&A: Explore Research Areas

InCites B&A: Explore People

InCites B&A: Explore Regions

InCites B&A: Save to InCites from Web of Science Core Collection
 

Find your H-index 

Researcher Impact, Author impact, H-index etc 

H-index is a measure of researcher impact. Before attempting to find your h-index ensure you have a complete and accurate reflection of your publication and research activities. Simply put the h-index is a measure of the number of highly impactful papers a researcher has published. The h-index is defined by how many h of a researcher’s publications (Np) have at least h citations each. 

H-index limitations

• In general you can only compare values within a single discipline. Different citation patterns will mean, for example, an average medical researcher will generally have much larger h-index value than a world-class mathematician. 
• The h-index may be less useful in some disciplines, particularly some areas of the humanities.

ORCID® (Open Researcher and Contributor ID)
Flinders University is implementing ORCID® (Open Researcher and Contributor ID). ORCID has integrations with Scopus Author ID and Researcher ID which allows you to easily push and pull your publications information to and from ORCID while simultaneously updating your Scopus Author ID and Researcher ID profiles. Sign up for ORCID @ Flinders through Flinders University and follow the instructions on how to update your ORCID record. 

You can use your ORCID to track citations and find your h-index Scopus, Web of Science and your Google Scholar. Remember these databases have different coverage so use the one that makes you look the best! 

Make a Google Citations profile

This requires a Google account (if you have ever signed in to use Gmail, Google Drive, or Youtube, you already have one of these. 

Get started with Google Scholar Citations

Strengths 

• Covers a wider range of sources, (especially conferences, technical reports and eprints). 
• Easier to calcualte some of the less common metrics (since it is not linked to proprietary data). 

Disadvantages 

• Maybe considered a less authoritarian resources than Web of Science. 
• More difficult to search when there are multiple authors with the same family name & initials-limited options to refine 
• There may be duplication of results, so check carefully. 
• Coverage is primarily medical, scientific, and technical. 
• Coverage is primarily English language.

Scopus 

From the Library homepage 

1. Log in to Scopus with your Flinders FAN and password. An ORCID ID would be very useful here but not absolutely necessary. 
2. Go to Scopus from the Flinders University Library Databases page: http://www.flinders.edu.au/library/ (under the heading Finding – Databases --> Search for Scopus). 

In Scopus 

1. Go to the Author Search tab 
2. Enter your name or enter your ORCID iD and search. In the results screen, tick the names/results that match you. 
3. View Citation Overview. 
4. View h-graph. 
5. (You can Sort on: Date or Cited by on the right hand side column of the results). 

If you had to choose more than one name to see your H-Index & Citations

• Tick the boxes next to your names, and choose “request to merge authors”. 

If you noticed that it had your old institution

• Click your name, and on the next page, choose “request author detail corrections”. 

You can also update these details via your ORCID profile (Scopus to ORCID). 

Web of Science 

From the Library homepage 

1. Log in to Web of Science with your Flinders FAN and password. 
2. Go to Web of Science from the Flinders University Library Databases page: http://www.flinders.edu.au/library/ (under the heading Finding – Databases --> Search for Web of Science). 

In Web of Science 

1. Enter author name in the basic search box (Enter last name, a space, & the first initial of the first name). 
2. When searching by author, make sure that you change the dropdown option from Topic to Author. 
3. Select Research Doman – leave blank. 
4. Select Organisation – Go to F and select all Flinders related institutions. 
5. Click on Finish search. 
6. Tick boxes that match your publications and then choose ‘Create Citation Report’. 
7. OR select create citation report and then remove individual items from the citation report (this might be easier depending on the number of publications). 

If you noticed something is wrong with your Web of Science results

Web of Science gets its data from ResearcherID - you will need to create a profile at http://researcherid.com or update your existing profile. 

• Publish strategically: Select the right journal for you (see: Journal Impact). 
• Disseminate widely: make your work Open Access through your Institutional Repository the Flinders Academic Commons (see: Open Scholarship). 
• Define your digital footprint: link your online identities together using ORCID and further disseminate your work.

How to Link Your Online Profiles

Flinders University 

Define your digital footprint. Your ORCID iD is guaranteed to persistently resolve to your identity, use it to link to your other research profiles to define your digital footprint. 

Your ORCID record can contain links to your other online profiles including LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, ResearchGate, Academia.edu, and your Flinders University Staff Web Profile. Complete the loop by updating your Flinders Staff webpage with your ORCID and other relevant profiles, and don't forget to edit your ResearchGate profile to include your ORCID iD. 

ORCID Record 

Websites

Your ORCID record can be linked to multiple external webpages such as a personal website, department profile, Wikipedia page, or social media accounts such as Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Google+, and others. 

Under the Website section, enter information about the website into the Description and URL boxes. 

• Enter a description of the website. This description is displayed as part of your record and should be kept brief. 
• Enter the full URL of the website you want to link to. 

Saved websites display with the just the description, which links to the URL you provided. You can add an unlimited number of websites but each must have a unique URL, websites with the same URL as a previously added website will not save. 

Flinders University Staff Profile 

To edit your Staff Business Web Page follow the Instructions on the Flinders Unviersity Staff Business Web Pages website. 

The following social media links can be added: 

• Twitter 
• LinkedIn 
• Google+ 
• Google Scholar 
• ResearchGate 
• Blog

ResearchGate Profile 

Add your ORCID iD (and more) to your ResearchGate profile. Log in to your profile, edit Info, and add your other identifiers to your ResearchGate profile.

The following can be added to your ResearchGate profile:

• Staff Business Web Page (in Websites) 
• Twitter 
• ORCID iD 

If you're applying for external grant funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC) or the National Health & Medical Research Council (NHMRC) you may find the following links useful. 

• Research Services Office: Applying for Funding

The Research Services Office (RSO) is responsible for administering all external research grant applications and research related contracts and agreements on behalf of Flinders University. Staff must therefore submit all grant applications and initiate research contracts and agreements through the RSO. 

• Faculty of Medicine, Health, Nursing & Midwifery

FAN Log in to access.The Research Administrative Unit’s primary role is to support researchers, allied professionals and research higher degree (RHD) students interested in research within the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. 

Their services aim to: 

• Facilitate and promote quality research.  
• Support grant submissions. 
• Generate research collaborations. 
• Facilitate and support Academics with ongoing internal funding opportunities. (establishment grants, visitor seminar grants). 
• Facilitate and support Research Higher Degree students with Research Student Maintenance applications, travel conference applications and publication awards. 
• Facilitate and manage the Faculty’s competitive research grant round. 

• Faculty of Education, Humanities and Law: EHL External Funding

The EHL Research Office is committed to assisting researchers in their pursuit of external funding. If you have a project for which you are interested in seeking external funding, please contact the Faculty's Research Development Officer, Mr Narmon Tulsi. Please note that all external research grant applications must formally be submitted via the Research Services Office. 

• Faculty of Science and Engineering: Research Grants 
• Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences: About Research

The Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences has a vibrant research culture. Research in the Faculty spans a diversity of disciplines in the social sciences.

Measures of Researcher Impact 

Demonstrating your research impact is becoming increasingly important in the research landscape. There are several methods for demonstrating your research impact. 

The h-index is arguably the most well-known measure of research impact and assesses publication output and citation-based impact simultaneously. 

Citation reports are another method to interpret research impact by creating a profile of your research outputs. 

Esteem measures can be incorporated into applications for grants or promotions and reflect 'esteem' rather than citation based quantitative measures. 

In order to determine research impact it is important to ensure you have a complete and accurate reflection of your publication and research activities. Keeping up to date with your author profiles such as your public Google Scholar profile, Scopus Author ID, Researcher ID (Web of Science) and ORCiD iD will allow you to gather accurate researcher bibliometrics. 

ORCiD® (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) 

Flinders University supports ORCiD®). ORCiD has integrations with Scopus Author ID and Researcher ID which allows you to easily push and pull your publications information to and from ORCiD while simultaneously updating your Scopus Author ID and Researcher ID profiles. 

You can use Scopus, Web of Science and your Google Scholar profile to find your h-index. Remember these databases have different coverage so use the one that makes you look the best! 

Training & support videos and help 

Watch the video: Web of Science: Citation Report where Thomson Reuters demonstrate how to build a citation report. 

Watch the video. Web of Science: How to Build a Citation Map

Citation reports 

A citation report provides details on the publications a researcher has authored and the number of times those works have been cited. 

Citation reports can be run in Scopus, Web of Science and Google Scholar. 

Scopus

1.  Select Author Search. 

2.  Type your last name and your initial and select Search.

3.  Select the names that match your name. 

4.  Select Show Documents to see your publications and how they were cited in Scopus. 

5.  Select All and then view Citation Overview. 

6.  You will see your H-Index. 

Scopus only calculates citations received since 1996. 

Web of Science 

1. Using the Search function, type the name of a known author. For an author that is published under different initials, make sure you include all the initials to retrieve all the published papers in the Web of Science. E.g. For the author Smith JA, search for smith j* OR smith a*. 
2. On the results page, on the right-hand side above the results, select Create Citation Report to see the citation analysis for the author. 
3. The Citation Report gives the numbers for published items in each year, citations in each year, total citations, average citations per item, and the h-index. 
4. Also, remember that if you have books or papers in non-Web of Science indexed journals or in older indexed journals before they were included in the Web of Science, you need to add them manually to your h-index calculation.

Google Scholar 

Publish or Perish is a free software program that retrieves and analyses academic citations using data from Google Scholar. 

• Publish or Perish calculates: 
• total number of papers 
• total number of citations 
• average number of citations per paper/book 
• average number of citations per author 
• the h-index 
• other metrics

Esteem Measures 

Esteem measures may provide additional evidence of research quality and/or research capacity. These measures may be considered in the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) initiative and may be relevant for competitive grant applications and academic promotions. In addition to citations, you may like to include esteem measures in any grant or promotion application. 

Esteem measures eligible for ERA (Excellence in Research for Australia) are: 

• Editor of a prestigious work of reference 
• Fellowship of a learned academy and membership of AIATSIS 
• Recipient of a nationally competitive research fellowship 
• Membership of a statutory committee 
• Recipient of an Australia Council grant or Australia Council fellowship 

Other measures of esteem may include: 

• Invitations to speak, particularly as the keynote speaker 
• Involvement in committees, organisations or societies 
• Editor or reviewer on major journal 
• Awards or rankings in prestigious lists 
• Holdings in Libraries 
• Patents 
• Registered Designs 
• Research Commercialisation Income
• International engagement