Research Metrics Toolkit

1. Access Web of Science from the Library website
2. Select the option to access the "new" Web of Science interface
3. Search by author to access the author's record
4. From the author record, locate the Author Impact Beamplot in the right hand column, and click View Full Beamplot
5. Adjust the year range as necessary, and view the article Citation Percentiles by year on the horizontal lines of the chart.

Find out more about Author Impact Beamplots

1. Access Scopus from the Library website

2. Change the Search option to Documents, and type or copy/paste the title of the article, conference paper, or book/chapter between double quotation marks ("..."). Click Search

3. Click on the article title to view the full record

4. View the Citation Benchmarking percentile in the Metrics box in the right hand column. This indicates how citations received by this document compare with the average for similar documents.

1. Access SciVal through Scopus, or from www.scival.com

2. SciVal is available to Deakin users, however, you will need to log in using an Elsevier account. This personal account is required as you will be setting up and saving preferences. If you have an account for Scopus or ScienceDirect, this will work. If not, click Register Now

3. Once logged in, select the Overview module

4. In the left hand menu, under Researchers and Groups, select Add Researchers and Groups

5. Select Define a new researcher, and search for yourself using your last name, first initial, and affiliation

6. Select any name variations that are you, Validate Publications if you wish (helpful if you have a popular name and want to ensure all publications are yours), or Directly go to Save Researcher

7. Choose a name and add tags (optional), then click Save and Finish

8. Outputs in Top Citation Percentiles will be displayed in the Published tab. You can also use the Benchmarking module for more flexibility around dates, FOR codes, and the percentiles themselves (eg. top 1, 5, 10, or 25%)

To view the percentile rank for individual articles:

1. Click on the researcher's name to bring up the Overview pop-up
2. Click View list of publications
3. Click Export and choose CSV or XLSX format
4. Under Publication metrics, make sure you have Outputs in Top Citation Percentiles, per percentile ticked
5. In the spreadsheet, check the column Outputs in Top Citation Percentiles, per percentile to see the article ranking. In SciVal, smaller numbers are higher rankings - eg. "3" places the article in the third highest percentile.

Please note: Calculating Outputs in Top Citation Percentiles from SciVal only takes into consideration documents that are indexed in the Scopus database from 1996 onwards.

InCites implements a few indicators to represent the highly cited articles of an author: 

• Documents in Top 1%: Percentage of publications in the top 1% based on citations by category, year, and document type
• Documents in Top 10%: Percentage of publications in the top 10% based on citations by category, year, and document type
• Highly Cited Papers: Percentage of publications that are assigned as Highly Cited in ESI (top 1% by citations for field and year)
• Hot Papers: Percentage of publications that are assigned as Hot Papers in ESI (top 0.1% by citations for field and age).

To calculate these metrics:

1. Create a Web of Science profile and add your publications for the most accurate citation data from Web of Science

2. Access InCites through Web of Science, or from the Library A-Z Databases

3. InCites is available to Deakin users, however, you will need to log in using a Web of Science account. This personal account is required as you will be setting up and saving preferences. If you have an account for Web of Science or EndNote, this will work. If not, click Register Now

4. Once logged in, select the People module

5. In the left-hand menu, under By Attributes, select Person Name or ID

6. Select Unique ID, you can search by ResearcherID or ORCID (if it is linked to the ResearcherID account)

7. From the suggested list select the ID that matches your search

8. If these indicators are not displayed as one of the indicators in the results section, click on Configure Indicator icon  to add them

1. Access Essential Science Indicators from the Library website
2. Use the Indicators tab to explore Top Papers, Highly Cited Papers, and Hot Papers by field and region.
3. Use the Field Baselines tab to explore Citation Rates, Percentiles, and Field Rankings by field and year.
4. Use the Citation Thresholds tab to explore ESI Thresholds, Highly Cited Thresholds, and Hot Paper Thresholds by field and year.

Find out more about Essential Science Indicators.