Impact and Metrics: Library Tools and Services

Article Metrics Overview

The databases below will help you find citation counts (within each database) for a selected article, set of articles, and more. If you have more questions about a particular topic, contact your USF subject librarian for more assistance.

Databases for Finding Article Metrics

Scopus
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, Scopus features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. -- For saving searches and setting up email alerts please register in Scopus.
Web of Science [formerly Web of Knowledge]
The ISI Web of Science provides seamless access to the Science Citation Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, and ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Citation Index. It enables users to search current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from approximately 8,500 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world. ISI Web of Science also provides a unique search method, cited reference searching. With it, users can navigate forward, backward, and through the literature, searching all disciplines and time spans to uncover all the information relevant to their research. Users can also navigate to electronic full-text journal articles. -- Simultaneous Users: Unlimited
Google Scholar
Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.

There is more information we can help to demonstrate regarding other metrics for articles. Scopus provides a measure know as Field Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI). We are available to provide more information on how you can create a spreadsheet or other documentation of these metrics.