Calculating Author Impact Using Web of Science

1. Navigate to MUSM LIbraries website: https://med.mercer.edu/library.
2. In the middle of the screen click on “Databases”
3. Next, click the letter “W” scroll down the list of databases and select Web of Science
4. If off campus, you will need to login
5. Once in Web of Science select “Advanced Search” and in the “Query Preview” search box type OG=(Mercer University) AND AD=(Sch Med) AND your name in this order:
   last name, first initial (ex. Bridges C)
   Your search will look like: OG=(Mercer University) AND AD=(Sch Med) AND AU=Bridges C
6. You can adjust the dates for publications you wish to retrieve by selecting the years under “Add date range”
7. Click the blue “Search” button to run your search
8. You will retrieve a list of your publications
9. To view your h-index  look for “Citation Report” on the right hand side of the screen
10. Click the blue “Citation Report” button
11. Your h-index will display in the box to the far right of the screen

Calculating Author Impact Using Google Scholar

Once you've created a Google Scholar Profile, it is easy to add publications and see your h-index and i10-index. Publications like theses, books, and reports that might not be included in Web of Science can be added in Google Scholar and will contribute to your citation count. However, you should check data in Google Scholar carefully, since it can be more prone to errors and duplication.

1. Navigate to Google Scholar
2. Enter name of author
3. If a profile exists for the author it will appear at the top of the search results, click the name of the author and their profile page will open
4. View the h-index for the person on the right side of the screen.

Google Scholar Citations

Caution about Author Impact Calculations

Because databases like Web of Science,and Google Scholar differ in the content that they include, it is likely that your citation counts, and even your h-index, will be different depending on which database you use.

Publish or Perish

• Publish or Perish
  Downloadable software that uses data from Google Scholar to calculate a variety of metrics, beyond just the h-index.
  Metrics calculated include:
  -Total number of papers and 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
  -The contemporary h-index
  -Three variations of individual h-indices
  -The average annual increase in the individual h-index
  -The age-weighted citation rate
  -An analysis of the number of authors per paper.

Scholarometer

• Scholarometer
  A browser extension that queries Google Scholar. Network visualizations are based on crowdsourced discipline annotations of the queried authors.