SOM Library: Measuring Your Research Impact: Home

Create Researcher Profiles

A Google Scholar Citations Profile is an easy way for authors to keep track of citations to their articles. You can also make your profile public, so that it may appear in Google Scholar results when people search for your name. You can choose to have your list of articles updated automatically or review the updates yourself, or to manually update your articles at any time. Google Scholar also calculates your h-index and times cited.

ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher. Enhance your ORCID record with your professional information and link to your other identifiers, such as Web of Science ResearcherID.

Web of Science Researcher Profile (formerly Publons) allows researchers to list their publications, as well as their peer review and editorial board memberships. You will be assigned a Web of Science ResearcherID. Web of Science also calculates metrics such as the h-index, using citation data from the Web of Science Core Collection database. Links with ORCID accounts.

Science Experts Network Curriculum Vitae (SciENcv) is a researcher profile system for all individuals who apply for, receive or are associated with research investments from federal agencies. SciENcv is available in My NCBI.

Doximity
Professional networking site for U.S. clinicians. Connect with colleagues and ask questions.
ResearchGate
Professional networking site for researchers. Collaborate with colleagues and share data.
LinkedIn
Social networking site for all professions.

Faculty Expertise Database
Search for faculty members, learn about their research areas, and identify potential collaborators.
Scholar Commons
Scholar Commons is an Institutional Repository to preserve, collect and disseminate the research and scholarship of the University of South Carolina.

Citationchaser
Free program from the Evidence Synthesis Hackathon for forward and backward citation searching. You can search by DOI as well as PMID. RIS exports available.
How to do a cited reference search
Tutorial on searching Web of Science database. Clarivate Analytics.
Has this article been cited? (Searching Google Scholar)
During this tutorial, you will learn how to use Google Scholar to find out whether an article has been cited and how to create an email alert to notify you when an article is cited.
Transcript (Word)

What are altmetrics?
An introduction from Altmetric.com
Altmetric Bookmarklet for Researchers
A free bookmarklet for Chrome, Firefox and Safari to view the online shares and mentions of an article with a single click.
Impact Story Profiles
Track information on Twitter, blogs, news outlets and more. Twitter account required.

What is the h-index? An introduction from Wikipedia.

Calculating your h-index: Both Google Scholar Citations and Web of Science Researcher ID will automatically generate your h-index after you create a researcher profile. You can also search Google Scholar Citations to view another researcher's h-index.

Searching for another researcher's h-index via the Web of Science database:

Access the Web of Science database.
Select the Authors link to search for a particular author..
You can search by name or author identifiers, such as ORCID ID. Enter the author's name and click Search. (If you need to add variations of the author's name, select Add name variant to add additional searches.)
If multiple author records appear, select the relevant ones, then click View as combined record.