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Tools for Impact Measurement
Web of Science 1
(Clarivate)
Journal Citation Report
(Clarivate)
Scopus
(Elsevier)
SciVal
(Elsevier)
Measure the Impact of:
Articles
Authors
Journals
Articles
Journals
Authors
HKBU
Authors
User-created Author Groups
Key Impact Metrics 2

Articles
  • Citation Count
  • Citing Items by Classification

    Citing Items by Classification

    Breakdown of how this article has been mentioned, based on available citation context data. Classifications have: Background, Basis, Support, Differ, and Discuss

  • Highly Cited Paper

    Highly Cited Paper

    An indicator to flag a paper receiving enough citations to place it in the top 1% of the corresponding academic field up to a cut-off date based on a highly cited threshold for the field and publication year

  • Hot Papers

    Hot Papers

    An indicator to flag a paper published in the past two years and received enough citations in the calculated month to place it in the top 0.1% of papers in the corresponding academic field

  • Citation Count
  • PlumX Metrics

    PlumX Metrics

    Five categories of online footprints of research output (articles, conference proceedings, book chapters, and more: Usage, Captures, Mentions, Social Media, and Citations. Click here for more details

  • Citation Percentile
  • Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI)

    Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI)

    A ratio to show how well cited a document is when compared to similar documents (publication year, document type, and associated disciplines). A value greater than 1.00 means the document is more cited than the average

    Number of citations received by an article
    FCWI =
    Expected number of citations received by an article
Journals

not recommended
Indepth metrics from 1997 3
  • Citation Count
  • Journal Impact Factor (JIF)

    Journal Impact Factor (JIF)

    A journal-level metric calculated from data indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection. A value of 1.0 means that the articles published one or two years ago have been cited once on average

    Citations in 2021 to items published in 2019 + 2020
    JIF 2021 =
    Number of citable items in 2019 + 2020
  • Immediacy Index

    Immediacy Index

    The count of citations in the current year to the journal that reference content in this same year. Journals that have a consistently high Immediacy Index attract citations rapidly

    Cites in the current year to items published in the current year
    Number of items published in the current year
  • Journal Citation Indicator (JCI) + JCI Percentile

    Journal Impact Factor (JIF)

    The average Category Normalized Citation Impact (CNCI) of citable items (articles & reviews) published by a journal over a recent three year period. The average JCI in a category is 1. Journals with a JCI of 1.5 have 50% more citation impact than the average in that category

  • JIF Percentile
Indepth metrics from 2011 3
  • CiteScore

    CiteScore

    The average citations received per document published in the journal

    Citations 2018-2021
    CiteScore 2021 =
    Number of citable items in 2018-2021
  • Scimago Journal Rank (SJR)

    Scimago Journal Rank (SJR)

    The average number of weighted citations received in the selected year by the journal in the three previous years

  • CiteScore Percentile
  • Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

    Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

    The actual number of citations received relative to citations expected for the serial’s subject field

Authors
Metrics from 1980 (Science & Social Sciences) and 1994 (Arts & Humanities)
  • Citation Count (= Sum of Times Cited)
  • h-index

    h-index

    To balance scholarly productivity with citation impact, it is defined as the maximum value of h such that the given author/journal has published at least h papers that have each been cited at least h times

  • Geographic Citation Map

    Geographic Citation Map

    A map showing the distribution of the researcher's citations across the globe

  • Highly Cited Researcher

    Highly Cited Researcher

    An indicator to flag a researcher ranking in the top 1% by citations for the field and publication year

  • Author Impact Beamplot

    Author Impact Beamplot

    A graph showing citation percentile of each of the author’s articles, annual citation percentile of author’s articles published in each year, and overall citation percentile median covering all articles published by the author

Basic metrics from 1788
  • Citation Count
  • h-index

    h-index

    To balance scholarly productivity with citation impact, it is defined as the maximum value of h such that the given author/journal has published at least h papers that have each been cited at least h times

Indepth metrics from 2012
  • Citation Count
  • h-index

    h-index

    To balance scholarly productivity with citation impact, it is defined as the maximum value of h such that the given author/journal has published at least h papers that have each been cited at least h times

    +
    h5-index

    h5-index

    Using a 5-year publication and citation window on the standard h-index calculation to track the metric over time in the Benchmarking module

  • International Collaboration
  • Academic-Corporate Collaboration
  • Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI)

    Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI)

    A ratio to show how well cited a document is when compared to similar documents. A value greater than 1.00 means the document is more cited than expected according to the average. It takes the year of publication, document type, and the associated disciplines

    Number of citations received by an article
    FCWI =
    Expected number of citations received by an article
  • Outputs in Top Citation Percentiles

    top 1%, 5%, 10% or 25%

  • Publications in Top Journal Percentiles

    top 1%, 5%, 10% or 25%

HKBU
or

Author Groups
same as above, plus:
  • University Rankings

    University Rankings

    3 ranking systems are provided:

    • QS World University Rankings
    • World University Rankings
    • Academic Ranking of World Universities
  • Media impact
Basic Metadata
Only special info is listed here
Articles
  • Open Access Status
    (gold, gold hybrid, free to read, green published / accepted / submitted)
  • Open Access Status
    (gold, hybrid gold, bronze, green)
Journals
  • % of OA Gold
  • Cited Half-Life

    Cited Half-Life

    The median age of the items in this journal that were cited in the JCR year. Half of a journal's cited items were published more recently than the cited half-life

    +
    Citing Half-Life

    Citing Half-Life

    The median age of items in other publications cited by this journal in the JCR year

Authors
  • Author Positions
    (first, last, corresponding)
HKBU
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2 Metrics below the line are Normalized Metrics, mathematically adjusted to a particular subject
3 Unable to retreive consolidated metrics of journals that HKBU has published in
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