Research Metrics Toolkit

1. Access Scopus from the Library website

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

3. View the number of citations for the document to the right of its record in the search results

4. For more information, click the title of the document and navigate to the Metrics box in the right hand column

5. Click View all Metrics to access further article level metrics such as Field Weighted Citation Impact, social media, news, blog, and Wikipedia mentions, and citation benchmarking.

Please note: citation counts from Scopus only take into consideration documents that are indexed in the Scopus database.

1. Access Web of Science from the Library website

2. Change the search field next to the search box from Topic to Title and type or copy/paste the title of the conference paper between double quotation marks ("..."). Click Search

3. View the number of citations for the document to the right of its record in the search results

4. For more information, click the title of the document and navigate to the Citation networks box in the right hand column. A breakdown is available of which Web of Science databases the citations appear in.

Please note: citation counts from Web of Science only take into consideration documents that are indexed in the Web of Science database.

Web of Science Core Collection citation counts can also be viewed with Google Scholar, see box below.

1. Go to Google Scholar 

2. Type or copy/paste the title of the conference paper between double quotation marks ("..."). Hit Enter or click the Search button

3. View the number of citations for the document underneath its record in the search results. Web of Science Core Collection citations are also listed.