How do you know how many citations a journal has?

Using your Google Scholar Citations account, you can see the citation counts for your publications and have GS calculate your h-index. (You can also search Google Scholar by author name and the title of an article to retrieve citation information for a specific article.)

What is the number of citations for a scientific paper?

For all researchers, 5-10 citations of their papers will be great! Publishing in good journals help the citations of our articles.

What is the average number of citations for a paper?

The average citation per article for these publications was 8.1. The maximum number of citations was 664 and 120 papers were cited more than 100 times, of which 30 papers were cited more than 200 times.

How do you calculate a citation index?

1. Step 1: List all your published articles in a table.
2. Step 2: For each article gather the number it has been cited.
3. Step 3: Rank the papers by the number of times they have been cited.
4. Step 4: The h-index can now be inferred by finding the entry at which the rank in the list is greater than the number of citations.

What does number of citations mean?

‘Publication citations’ refers to the number of times that a publication has been cited by other publications in the Dimensions database. As a standard measure of the impact a paper has, citations are the most commonly used indicator of the acceptance/importance of published work within the research community.

How do I find out how many citations an author has?

Use the Citations tab to search for a particular author. The search will result in a list of publications, ranked by number of citations. Or, use the Publications tab to search for a particular article and see how many times it has been cited.

What is Citation Index of a journal?

A citation index is a kind of bibliographic index, an index of citations between publications, allowing the user to easily establish which later documents cite which earlier documents. Legal citation indexes are found in the 18th century and were made popular by citators such as Shepard’s Citations (1873).

Is an h-index of 40 good?

What is a Good h-Index? Hirsch reckons that after 20 years of research, an h-index of 20 is good, 40 is outstanding, and 60 is truly exceptional. In his paper, Hirsch shows that successful scientists do, indeed, have high h-indices: 84\% of Nobel prize winners in physics, for example, had an h-index of at least 30.

What is a good number of citations?

With 10 or more citations, your work is now in the top 24\% of the most cited work worldwide; this increased to the top 1.8\% as you reach 100 or more citations. Main take home message: the average citation per manuscript is clearly below 10!

What is index citation for a research paper?

Citation indexing makes links between books and articles that were written in the past and articles that make reference to (“cite”) these older publications. In other words, it is a technique that allows us to trace the use of an idea (an earlier document) forward to others who have used (“cited”) it.