Socialise

Social networks for researchers make your research visible and help you to discover the latest research while collaborating with others.

ORCID Author ID
Open Author Identifier

ResearcherID
Web of Science Researcher Profile and ID

Citations

Databases for Citation analysis

Article Level Metrics - Altmetrics

Traditional metric tools disregard new types of scholarly communication. Altmetrics can be used to measure how scholarly articles are being shared, used and discussed in the social media and publisher sites.

Altmetric Explorer
The Altmetric Explorer / University of Helsinki gathers data related to journal articles from news stories, blog posts, tweets, and postings related to scholarly articles and creates a score based on information from each of the data sources examined.

Altmetric Bookmarklet
Install the Altmetric Bookmarklet and get article level metrics of the papers you are reading.

Databases
Examples of databases and publishers who offer altmetric services:

• The Usage Count in Web of Science
• Article Metrics in  Scopus
• Article-Level Metrics on Public Library of Science PLOS
• Article metrics on ScienceDirect (Elsevier)
• Altmetrics on Wiley Online Library

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