Free citation metrics services
- BibExcelSoftware tool for analyzing bibliographic data.
- EigenfactorCitation impact analysis.
- Google Scholar CitationsUse the new Google Scholar Citations to find citations to your work from Google Scholar.
- ImpactStoryFree to use. "Impactstory is an open-source, web-based tool that helps scientists explore and share the diverse impacts of all their research products. By helping scientists tell data-driven stories about their impacts, we're helping to build a new scholarly reward system that values and encourages web-native scholarship. We’re funded by the National Science Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and incorporated as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation."
- Public Library of Science (PLos) article level metricsExplanation with link to actual metrics page (http://article-level-metrics.plos.org/).
- Publish or PerishSoftware download that uses Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic Search to obtain citations and show: Total number of papers, total number of citations, average citations per paper, citations per author, papers per author, and citations per year; Hirsch's h-index and related parameters; Egghe's g-index; h-index; and more.
- Relative Citation Ratio (RCR)Part of iCite, from the NIH’s Office for Portfolio Analysis. Usable only for articles found in PubMed (aka Medline).
- ScienceOpenA web site that aggregates open access journal articles in all fields, but mostly the natural sciences, and provides a venue for pre- and post-publication review, with altmetrics for individual articles.
- SCImago Journal RankRanks over 22,000 journals.
Social Media Metrics
- ImpactStoryFree to use. "Impactstory is an open-source, web-based tool that helps scientists explore and share the diverse impacts of all their research products. By helping scientists tell data-driven stories about their impacts, we're helping to build a new scholarly reward system that values and encourages web-native scholarship. We’re funded by the National Science Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and incorporated as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation."
- KloutAccesses accounts such as Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram and assigns you a score that represents your influence online.
- NextBigSoundMeasures growth and popularity of music artists across social media and streaming services (like youtube). Users can create new profiles for themselves. Some advanced features require payment.
