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Metrics overviewMetrics overview

Article level metrics

Name Source Requires a Subscription  Reporting module Pure Portal  Webservice (version 5.24) API collection ID

Field Weighted Citation Index (FWCI) 

SciVal No Yes  No Yes

sciVal

SciVal citations (Total) SciVal Yes No Yes No

sciValCitationsTotal

SciVal citations (Yearly) SciVal Yes No No No

sciValCitations

Author count SciVal Yes No No No

sciVal

Top Citation Percentile SciVal Yes (SciVal) Yes No No

scopusPercentiles

Top x% SciVal Yes (SciVal) Yes No No

sciVal

Citation (Total) Scopus Yes Yes Yes Yes

scopusCitationsTotal

Citation (Yearly) Scopus Yes Yes No Yes

scopusCitations

Citations (Total) WoS  Yes (Expanded API) Yes No No

webOfScienceCitationsTotal

 

Citation (Yearly) WoS  Yes (Expanded API) Yes No No

webOfScienceCitations

 

Highly cited paper WoS Yes (InCites API) Yes (with 5.27 Release) No No

webOfScienceInCitesRatings

Hot paper WoS Yes (InCites API) Yes (with 5.27 Release) No No

webOfScienceInCitesRatings

PlumX Plum No Yes Yes No

plumXCaptures

plumXCitations

plumXMentions

plumXSocialMedia

plumXUsage

Altmetrics Digital Science No No Yes No No
Fractional count Pure No Yes No No

fractionalCounts

(including  internal/external fraction

Custom citations Client No No No ? No
Download count Pure Pure portal Yes   ?

downloadStatistics

BFI point (Assessment DK) FI Yes No No ? ?

 

 

Journal level metrics

Name Source Requires a Subscription Reporting module Pure Portal  Webservice (version 5.24) API
Number of publications Scopus No No No No

scopusJournal

Total citations Scopus No No No No

scopusJournal

Total citations (excluding self-cites) Scopus No No No No

scopusJournal

Number of documents with zero citations Scopus No No No No

scopusJournal

Percent of articles cited Scopus No No No No

scopusJournal

CiteScore Scopus No Yes No Yes

scopusJournal

SNIP Scopus No Yes No Yes

scopusJournal

SJR Scopus No Yes No Yes

scopusJournal

Journal rank (Category metrics) Scopus No Yes No No

scopusCitescore

Quartile (Category metrics) Scopus No Yes No No

scopusCitescore

Percentile (Category metrics) Scopus No Yes No No

scopusCitescore

Rank Wos Yes (Spreadsheet) No No No

No

Journal Impact Factor Wos Yes (Journal API or Spreadsheet) Yes No No

webOfScienceJournal

Impact Factor without Journal Self Cites Wos Yes (Journal API) No No No

webOfScienceJournal

Cited Half-Life Wos Yes (Journal API or Spreadsheet) No No No

webOfScienceJournal

Citing Half-Life Wos Yes (Journal API) No No No

webOfScienceJournal

Normalized Eigenfactor Wos Yes (Journal API or Spreadsheet) No No No

webOfScienceJournal

5-Year Impact Factor Wos Yes (Journal API or Spreadsheet) No No No

webOfScienceJournal

Eigenfactor Score Wos Yes (Journal API or Spreadsheet) Yes No No

webOfScienceJournal

Immediacy Index Wos Yes (Journal API or Spreadsheet) Yes No No

webOfScienceJournal

Article Influence Score Wos Yes (Journal API or Spreadsheet) Yes No No

webOfScienceJournal

Total Cites Wos Yes (Journal API or Spreadsheet) No No No

webOfScienceJournal

Citable Items Wos Yes (Journal API or Spreadsheet) No No No

webOfScienceJournal

% Articles in Citable Items Wos Yes (Journal API or Spreadsheet) No No No

webOfScienceJournal

Average Journal Impact Factor Percentile Wos Yes (Journal API) No No No

webOfScienceJournal

Rank (Category metrics) Wos Yes (Journal API) No No No

webOfScienceJournalImpactFactors

Quartile (Category metrics) Wos Yes (Journal API) No No No

webOfScienceJournalImpactFactors

JIP Percentile (Category metrics) Wos Yes (Journal API) No No No

webOfScienceJournalImpactFactors

Custom (local) rating Client No Yes No No No
BFI (Assessment DK) FI No Yes No No ?
JUFO (Assessment FI) JUFO No Yes No No ?

 

Publisher level metrics

Name Source Requires a Subscription Reporting module Pure Portal  Webservice (version 5.24) API
Custom (local) rating Client No Yes No No  
BFI (Assessment DK) FI No Yes No No  
JUFO (Assessment FI) JUFO No Yes No No  

 

Person level metrics

Name Source Requires a Subscription Reporting module Pure Portal   Webservice (version 5.24) API
PlumX h-index Plum No Yes Yes No  
SciVal h-index SciVal Yes Yes Yes No  
Scopus h-index Scopus Yes Yes Yes Yes  
WoS h-index Wos Yes Yes Yes No  

 

Published at February 09, 2024

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Table of Contents
  1. Article level metrics
  2. Journal level metrics
  3. Publisher level metrics
  4. Person level metrics
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