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Research Metrics  What is Research Metrics? It is quantitative analysis of scientific and scholarly outputs and their impacts Research metrics measure impact and provide insight into influence of special journals publications, individual articles and authors Monitored...

Research Metrics  What is Research Metrics? It is quantitative analysis of scientific and scholarly outputs and their impacts Research metrics measure impact and provide insight into influence of special journals publications, individual articles and authors Monitored by different citation database system  Why Research Metrics? To review quality of journal Research profile quality of authors To support application for promotions in job To support research grant applications National level ranking and assessment (NAAC, NBA, NIRF) University or department review  What is citation database? A citation database is a form of bibliographic index which provides a record of citation between publications, enabling a user to see which publications have cited by which other publications. Such a database will show which authors have cited a publication and how many times an author has been cited.  Citation database system? Scopus Web of Science PubMed ERIC IEEE Xplore Science Direct DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) JSTOR Google Scholar  Scopus It is largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature; scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Coverage: approximate 100 millions items Discipline: multidisciplinary Provider: Elsevier  Web of Science It is second largest bibliographic database system. Discipline: multidisciplinary Coverage: 71 millions items Provider: Clarivate Analytics (formerly Thomson Reuters)  PubMed Citation data base system for biomedical and life science literature Coverage: 30 millions items Provider: NIH  ERIC Database system for education science ERIC – Education Resources Information Center Discipline: Education Science Coverage: 1.4 millions items Provide: U.S. Department of Education  IEEE Xplore Database system for engineering and computer science Coverage: 5 millions items Discipline: Engineering Provider: IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)  Science Direct Database for academic articles published by Elsevier Coverage: 16 millions items Discipline: multidiscipline Provider: Elsevier  DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) Database for open access journals and articles Coverage: 4.3 millions items Discipline: Multidiscipline Provider: DOAJ  JSTOR (Journal Storage) Database for multidisciplinary articles published before 1942 Coverage: 12 millions items Coverage: Multidisciplinary Provider: ITHAKA  Google Scholar Google scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. Cover multidisciplinary research items From one platform, you can search multidisciplinary articles, thesis, books, conference proceedings, publishers, professional societies Google scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research  Types of RM Journal level RM – Journal quality Article level RM – Article quality Author level RM – Research impact of researcher or author  Journal level RM Scopus indexed journal Cite score SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)  Journal level RM Web of Science indexed journal Impact factor Five year impact factor Immediacy index h5 index Citation half life Article influence score  JCR (Journal Citation Report) An annual publication by Clarivate Analytics It provides information about academic journals in the natural sciences and social sciences including impact factors. The JCR was originally published as a part of Science Citation Index (SCI). Currently, the JCR, as a distinct service, is based on citations compiled from the Science Citation Index Expanded and the Social Sciences Citation Index. JCR (Journal Citation Report)  Article level RM Article level metrics (ALMs) are used to quantify the impact of published article How published papers are being discussed and shared PLOS article level metrics Scopus has incorporates ALMs Nature publishing group and BioMed central has also incorporated ALMs  Author level RM H-index I10 – index G - Index