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1 Scholarly Metrics Tahirah Akbar-Williams, Mark Cyzyk, Robin Sinn The Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University

2 Introduction What are scholarly metrics? Why are they important? Our history of scholarly metrics presentations

3 Journal Metrics The crucial importance of the citation Journal impact factors Journal Citation Reports (JCR) Eigenfactor.org

4 Article Metrics Citation counts Traditional Value neutral Database dependent

5 Different Databases, Different Counts Web of Science Google Scholar Scopus

6 Newer Article Metrics Views Downloads Shares Twitter mentions Blog mentions

7 Author Metrics Author impact factors, H-Indexes, etc. Google Scholar Web of Science

8 AThe Author Tracking the impact of your work --Who is citing your work --How influential is your work Our platforms are not exhaustive -journals vs. the web H-Index- --H- index 20 means you have 20 items that have been cited at least 20 times Researcher ID --Establish your distinguish ID

9 gGoogle Scholar

10 Web of Science

11 Alt Metrics Quantifying social media citation Immediacy Impact or Popularity?

12 The SPARC Chart

13 Disciplinary Differences The Sciences The Social Sciences The Humanities

14 Conclusion The Limitations: No database is global; disciplinary differences; different metrics yield different numbers! What librarians should be doing with scholarly metrics Our LibGuide: http://guides.library.jhu.edu/metrics


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