How can you find alternative metrics for a publication? There are a variety of tools you can use to find this information. Additionally, many journals are now incorporating altmetrics into their websites, including journals published by Springer, Wiley, Nature Publishing Group, and select Elsevier publications.
Altmetric Bookmarklet: Free bookmarklet that displays cites, saves, links, and social media mentions for individual articles.
Impact Story: Join free with Twitter. Impact Story is an open-source website that allows researchers to create an online profile to help track the impact of their work.
PlumX: You can access PlumX metrics through many databases, like the Library's institutional repository.
Metrics Toolkit: For more discussion on all of the different kinds of metrics and use cases for each, visit the Metrics Toolkit. This toolkit also allows you to see appropriate metrics for different kinds of outputs for different scholarly fields.
Simplify promotion and tenure or just make it easier for colleagues to access your publications: create a digital research identifier. Digital identifiers allow you to claim your publications under a single, unique ID. This is particularly critical if you have published under more than one name or variant of your name or if you have a name that may be frequently confused with someone else (e.g., Jones).
Register for free, unique identifiers with ResearcherID and ORCID in order to distinguish your research activities from that of others with similar names. Once you have created your unique IDs, use them any time you submit work for publication, apply for grants, or in the research workflow to ensure that your work is properly attributed to you.
This will also allow you to pull bibliographies and reports, such as h-index, more easily.
ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports automated linkages between you and your professional activities ensuring that your work is recognized.
Researcher Profile assigns a unique identifier to manage your publication lists, track the times a publication is cited, determine the h-index, identify potential collaborators, and avoid author misidentification. Researcher Profile information integrates with the Web of Science and is ORCID compliant, allowing you to claim and showcase your publications from a single account. Search the registry to find collaborators, review publication lists, and explore how research is used around the world.
**You will need to sign in or register for a Researcher Profile account. On the WOS page, select Researcher Profile from the left column menu list.
Scopus Author Identifier
A Scopus Author Id is automatically assigned to every author who has an article indexed in Scopus. This ID is linked to an author profile in the Scopus database which contain additional author information and metrics.
From USF's ORCID & Other Digital Researcher IDs
Most openly accessible published items are assigned a digital object identifier (DOI). This unique permanent URL is easily harvested into your ORCID profile. Read more at our FAQ. What is a DOI and why is it important?