What is bibliometrics?
Bibliometrics is statistical analysis of publications. Bibliometric analyses are quantitative studies of publications.
You can use bibliometrics to:
- find new research areas
- provide evidence of the impact of your research outputs (for jobs, promotion or research funding)
- identify the scientific journals to be published
- identify potential research collaborators
Types of bibliometric measures:
- Citations
- H-index
- Journal metrics such as SNIP and SJR
- Google Scholar Metrics
Find bibliometric data:
- Web of Science
- Scopus
- Google Scholar
- SciVal
- Incites
- Journal Citation Reports