Research Guides: Libraries Researcher Support Services: Free research impact tools

Free tools for measuring researcher impact

Google Scholar Citations
Your Google Scholar profile (see example below) will show your publications with information about citations, including your "h-index".
Publish or Perish
Free downloadable software application to retrieve and analyze academic citations.
Sci2
The Science of Science (Sci2) Tool is a modular toolset specifically designed for the study of science. It supports the temporal, geospatial, topical, and network analysis and visualization of scholarly datasets at the micro (individual), meso (local), and macro (global) levels. Registration required.

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The development of this tool is supported in part by the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science center and the Department of Information and Library Science in the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University, the National Science Foundation under Grant No. SBE-0738111 and IIS-0715303, and the James S. McDonnell Foundation. See the Science of Science Cyberinfrastructure portal (http://sci2.cns.iu.edu) for documentation, screenshots, and to ask an expert. Sci2 Team. (2009). Science of Science (Sci2) Tool. Indiana University and SciTech Strategies, https://sci2.cns.iu.edu.
VOSViewer
VOSViewer is a free software tool for visualizing networks of citations and co-authorship of publications.

Becker Medical Library Model
The Becker Medical Library Model for Assessment of Research Impact model is a framework for tracking diffusion of research outputs and activities to locate indicators that demonstrate evidence of biomedical research impact. It is intended to be used as a supplement to publication analysis. Using the Becker Model in tandem with publication analysis provides a more robust and comprehensive perspective of biomedical research impact. The Becker Model also includes guidance for quantifying and documenting research impact as well as resources for locating evidence of impact.