PlumX
PlumX provides new ways to illustrate how your research is being noticed. By monitoring downloads, abstract views, tweets, shares, news mentions, and more, use this resource to provide more depth to your research impact.
PlumX data appears in your USF St. Petersburg campus Digital Archive citations.
Journal Metrics & Selection Tools
- Incites Journal Citation Reports This link opens in a new window
- SCImago Journal & Country RankingsJournal metrics from Elsevier's Scopus® database
- Scopus This link opens in a new windowFeatures smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. Includes CiteScore metrics to track journal impact.
- Cabell's Directories This link opens in a new windowJournal acceptance rates, peer review information, etc for journals in the fields of business, psychology, and education
- APA journal statisticsYearly pdf of acceptance rates, etc for psychology journals
- MLA Directory of Periodicals This link opens in a new windowProvides editorial and contact information on a variety of journal titles.
- Ulrich's Periodical Directory This link opens in a new windowConfirm a journal is academic, scholarly, and/or peer-reviewed by looking up the journal title in Ulrich's
Book Metrics
- Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new windowIn addition to scholarly journals, this database also includes news magazines (such as Time, Newsweek, or US News and World Report) and some newspapers (New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal). Use the links on the left side of your search results screen to limit to magazines or newspapers.
- Book Review Digest Plus (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowProvides excerpts of reviews of current English-language fiction and non- fiction.
- Google ScholarGoogle Scholar provides citing references for many books and book chapters.
- Omnifile Full Text Mega (Ebsco) This link opens in a new windowAnother useful, multidisciplinary database. Searches may be limited to peer reviewed articles.
- WorldCat This link opens in a new windowFind books in libraries in Florida and around the United States. Many of these items may be borrowed through interlibrary loan.
Citing references
More and more databases are adding cited references to their content; however, Web of Science and Google Scholar remain the primary sources available through the USF Libraries. There will be overlap between the databases but it pays to check each source since they all tend to have unique cited items. In addition, many of the larger journal publishers have now added citing references to their online article pages.
- Web of Science This link opens in a new window
H-Index and more
- "An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output." By J.E. Hirschfrom: Proceedings of the National Academic of Sciences 102(46), 16569-16572.
Several tools are available that allow you to calculate your H-index and get more information on the impact of your research.
- Web of Science ResearcherIDUse the "Citation Metrics" link to see how Web of Science calculates your h-index, the average number of citations per article, etc.