Yale University Library Research Guides: Engineering Reference Resources: Research Impact

Research Impact Overview

For more complete information about research impact, including suggestions to broaden your impact, see the guide for Research Impact.

Cited reference searching can be used to find out if an article, book, journal, or particular author has been cited by another work.

Google Scholar
Enter the the article title and click search. In the search results, locate the 'Cited By' number beneath each citation.
Publish or Perish
Publish or Perish is a software program that retrieves and analyzes academic citations. It uses Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic Search to obtain the raw citations, then analyzes these and presents results.
Scopus
In the query box, type the article title. The 'Cited by' column on the right contains number of times the article has been cited within Scopus.
Web of Science

Eigenfactor and Article Influence
eigenfactor.org ranks the influence of journals and articles much as Google’s PageRank algorithm ranks the influence of web pages. By this approach, journals are considered to be influential if they are cited often by other influential journals.
Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
Evaluates and compares journals using citation data drawn from the Web of Knowledge scholarly and technical journals. Shows most frequently cited and highest impact journals in a given field.
SJR (SCImago Journal and Country Rank)
Portal that includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus® database. These indicators can be used to assess and analyze scientific domains

Email Me

Contact:

17 Hillhouse Avenue
Room 110
PO Box 208342
New Haven, CT 06520
203-432-7460

Subjects: Chemistry, Computer Science, Engineering and Applied Science, Mathematics