Bibliometrics
Bibliometrics statistically analyses numbers of publications and their citations. Such analyses are used to assess the performance of scientists, research groups, publications, and journals. As a researcher, you can also use bibliometrics to demonstrate your research impact.
Bibliometrics of researchers
Groups or individual researchers are generally assessed with the following bibliometrics*:
- Number of publications
- Number of citations
- Relative or field-weighted impact metric, based on the average number of citations in a field
- Number of publications in the top 10% or the top 1% of the most-cited publications in a field
- H-index.
* Please note: Wageningen University & Research is currently busy updating the Tenure Track policy, according to the Dutch Recognition & Rewards programme. While this update is in progress, the current guidelines will be observed. You can read more about the new Academic Career Framework at WUR in this Resource article.
Bibliometrics of journals
Journals are generally assessed with the following metrics:
- Web of Science and Scopus let you analyse the citations of articles, e.g., all articles by an author
- Staff publications contains a bibliographic analysis section based on Web of Science data with various metrics for individual researchers and groups
- Journal metrics are available from Web of Science Journal citation report and from Scopus journal metrics
- SciVal and Essential Science Indicators offer more detailed metrics showing research performance and trends.