USF St. Petersburg Library: Faculty Promotion and Tenure Metrics: Metrics

Journal Metrics

APA journal statistics
Yearly pdf of acceptance rates, etc for psychology journals

Cabell's Directories
Journal acceptance rates, peer review information, etc for journals in the fields of business, psychology, and education
Incites Journal Citation Reports
MLA Directory of Periodicals
Provides editorial and contact information on a variety of journal titles.

SCImago Journal & Country Rankings
Journal metrics from Elsevier's Scopus® database

Scopus
Features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. Includes CiteScore metrics to track journal impact.
Ulrich's Periodical Directory
Confirm a journal is academic, scholarly, and/or peer-reviewed by looking up the journal title in Ulrich's

Book Metrics

Academic Search Premier
In 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)
Provides excerpts of reviews of current English-language fiction and non- fiction.

Google Scholar
Google's peer-reviewed journal search. If you are off-campus and not signed in to the proxy, you may not have access to many articles available through the library.

Omnifile Full Text Mega (Ebsco)
Another useful, multidisciplinary database. Searches may be limited to peer reviewed articles.
WorldCat
Find 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.

Google Scholar
Google's peer-reviewed journal search. If you are off-campus and not signed in to the proxy, you may not have access to many articles available through the library.

Web of Science
Web of Science is comprised of three files: Science Citation Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index , and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Each may be searched separately or as one.

Web of Science belongs to the family of Web of Knowledge(WOK) databases and may be search independently or as a group of WOK databases including BIOSIS and Zoological Record.

Electronic Alerts

Many of the journal publishers allow you to set up electronic alerts so that you will be sent the Table of Contents whenever a new issue is published. This is a great way to keep up with journals in your field of study.

In additiona, many databases also allow you to set up search alerts that will email you a notification if a new item has been added that meets your search criteria or if a new article has cited a work that you would like to follow.

Most of these resources require you to set up a free login account to use these features. Check the "help" features in any database or journal site to see if e-alerts are provided.

For assistance in setting up e-alerts, contact a Poynter Librarian.

Additional Resources

H-Index and more

"An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output." By J.E. Hirsch
from: 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.

Google Scholar My Citations
Web of Science ResearcherID
Use the "Citation Metrics" link to see how Web of Science calculates your h-index, the average number of citations per article, etc.